I have deep seated Epistemological issues that I have been working on for years. It’s taking time, but I am getting better. The issues is, of course, with not knowing – and to what extent not knowing seems to be the only sane thing we can do in our modern times. So when I see a book with ‘not knowing’ in the subtitle, I am at least somewhat curious.
This book did not help me all that much.
It is at heart the standard fare for non-fiction these days – the kind of book that seems to have been written in the style of Malcolm Gladwell. This is to say, there is an anecdote about how a person in society handled a problem, and why you should handle your problem in a similar way. The life advice here? Don’t worry about Not Knowing, and be prepared to be flexible with your plans for the future, always ready to change if things aren’t working.
Ok, sure. Fine. I guess I can do that.
Does that make this some kind of hapless self-help book? I feel like that is what it is, even if not labeled as such. Sure, “be flexible and ready to change” is good advice, but that isn’t what I am looking for to help with my epistemological problems.
This is a pass for me.
Failures in Polymathy 