> When a question is clearly unanswerable in principle, it's probably formulated incorrectly.... Not enough to get the answers right Have to be able to change the questions See also [this][1] because sometimes we pick our questions based on the answers we want or expect to hear. You don't want to hear a no!!! It's not even just that—it's also that you want to follow in the self-revealing groove of a narrative that proves you're smart and capable and one of the enlightened. Like you're one of the arrived, you made the grade, basically you win and have the power. But remember what happened to that one guy who concluded that everyone else was a fool except for him. Also remember when Lister asked, "Didn't it seem just a bit too easy to escape?" Any success that seems like it was preordained should be a red flag. Don't they also call that a "just so" story? So go back to being a beginner and not giving a shit, and collect some no's!!! Dig up some wrong answers. This is all about writers block too!! Remember when writing was fun? You had permission to type random stupid shit on the page, and sometimes it turned out to produce some awesome flowers. But you can't have flowers without the shit. If you think you can, you are either on drugs or else narcissistically fooling yourself. This is huge!!! You're a stupid adult! That's not your fault!!! As Jesse brown points out, there are some things which to see, mainstream thought impedes rather than impels. Plagiarism (the subtleties of what that even is) Show your work Weird assignments “Iago wants to be a golfer” Makes it less boring for me too Googling is its own skill What are we really supposed to be learning anyway? Stingrays Slow reading—a lost art? What can I do Serfs Predictive Perspective > For we now recognize that instead of coming to have a concept of something because we have noticed that sort of thing, the ability to notice a sort of thing is already to have the concept of that sort of thing and cannot account for it. (Sellars 1963 p. 176) [1]: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/07/03/upshot/a-quick-puzzle-to-test-your-problem-solving.html?_r=0&abt=0002&abg=0