I've been eating a lot of wagyu beef in Japan. I will probably continue this trend today.
I think the truth is, there's no universally good diet. Different genetics produce different optimal diets for people. There's increasingly a lot of science that supports this.
Jack and I basically only ate beef tacos for a year.
I do think true intellectual modesty is achieved through exploring honest disagreement. The more you explore the depths of different viewpoints, the more you realize that objective truth is much harder to know -- if not outright impossible. Or to invoke Socrates: "the more I learn, the less I know".
Love that! I have a penchant for that, too. I tend to think it matters a lot more as to "why" somone thinks something than whether they nominally agree with my point. And I have a lot of dark stories from my times in politics as to why I now strongly believe that.
It's worth it and personally rewarding to fight back against this internal nature.
It's pretty hard to find. To steal Tim Urban's lingo, we tend to go into "primitive mind" mode pretty quickly. Even I do it a lot.
Intellectually honest debate is hard to find. But when you do find it, both people tend to learn things. I personally enjoy having my thoughts challenged. I don't tie my identity closely to my beliefs. I'm ready and excited to be wrong!
When was the last time you said "I don't know" in an argument?
You should. It's really insane right now. It feels like the whole world decided to come to Japan at the same time, since they opened up last October to international visitors.
