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And it's the
paradox
that the people who have the most malaria in the world tend to care about it the least.
I wanted to see what's called archer's paradox, the idea that in order to actually hit your target, you have to aim at something slightly skew from it.
Well, here's the
paradox
of modern science, the
paradox
of the conclusion I think historians and philosophers and sociologists have come to, that actually science is the appeal to authority, but it's not the authority of the individual, no matter how smart that individual is, like Plato or Socrates or Einstein.
Related to this subject, we are going to talk about what I call the
paradox
of chance, which is curious.
That's why I call it the
paradox
of chance.
But by framing those lessons as illogical anecdotes, they became tests to help practicing monks learn to live with ambiguity and
paradox.
What we know is, at the heart of innovation is a
paradox.
I leave you with a final thought experiment: Fermi's
paradox.
Well, one possible solution to Fermi's
paradox
is that, as civilizations become technologically advanced enough to consider living amongst the stars, they lose sight of how important it is to safeguard the home worlds that fostered that advancement to begin with.
But then we have another
paradox
that we're dealing with these days.
And so as I contemplated all of this and looked at what was happening, I suddenly realized that there was a
paradox
that was emerging inside of me, and the
paradox
was this: in all of those sermons that I preached decrying the violence, I was also talking about building community, but I suddenly realized that there was a certain segment of the population that I was not including in my definition of community.
And so the
paradox
was this: If I really wanted the community that I was preaching for, I needed to reach out and embrace this group that I had cut out of my definition.
And, you know, it's interesting, there's some research that talks about why this is the case and it's called the merit
paradox.
These mountains contain also a scientific paradox: They are made by quartz, which is a very common mineral on the earth's crust, and the rock made up by quartz is called quartzite, and quartzite is one of the hardest and least soluble minerals on earth.
There's a
paradox
to metaphors.
One of the best known of Zeno's problems is called the dichotomy paradox, which means, "the
paradox
of cutting in two" in ancient Greek.
To resolve the paradox, it helps to turn the story into a math problem.
Going back to Zeno's journey, we can now see how how the
paradox
is resolved.
Speaking of waste, allow me to point out an interesting
paradox
that is threatening our economies as we speak.
I call it the twin peaks
paradox.
The
paradox
here is that mindfulness is just about being really interested in getting close and personal with what's actually happening in our bodies and minds from moment to moment.
Plutarch noted the Ship of Theseus was an example of the philosophical
paradox
revolving around the persistence of identity.
And in order to answer it, like so many great minds before you, you must be willing to dive into the bottomless ocean of philosophical
paradox.
What we've stumbled upon is a case of Simpson's paradox, where the same set of data can appear to show opposite trends depending on how it's grouped.
Simpson's
paradox
isn't just a hypothetical scenario.
So how do we avoid falling for the
paradox?
This is called the
paradox
of unanimity.
The key to understanding this apparent
paradox
is in considering the overall level of uncertainty involved in the type of situation you're dealing with.
When you look at it this way, the
paradox
of unanimity isn't actually all that paradoxical.
This is the
paradox
of value, famously described by pioneering economist Adam Smith.
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