Thinking Like A Fox

<p>There is a line among the fragments of the Greek poet Archilochus which says: &lsquo;The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.&rsquo; Scholars have differed about the correct interpretation of these dark words, which may mean no more than that the fox, for all his cunning, is defeated by the hedgehog&rsquo;s one defence. But, taken figuratively, the words can be made to yield a sense in which they mark one of the deepest differences which divide writers and thinkers, and, it may be, human beings in general.</p> <p>Hedgehogs, as Berlin writes, &ldquo;know one big thing.&rdquo; They have a single-minded view of the world that makes them overconfident of their own opinions and worldview. They&rsquo;re too sure of themselves. And in some respects, aren&rsquo;t we all? It&rsquo;s an understandable tendency of the human mind. The world is complex, too complex to make perfect, complete sense of. That&rsquo;s why we make generalizations about people and places, events and situations. It gives us a sense of understanding, albeit an incomplete understanding.</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/@quentinsepter/thinking-like-a-fox-1414a58dd748"><strong>Read More</strong></a></p>
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