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448 points eatitraw | 4 comments | 16 Nov 25 10:14 UTC | HN request time: 0.023s | source
1. ssgodderidge ◴[16 Nov 25 11:38 UTC] No.45944325[source]▶
> It seems like, by default, you are stuck with whatever level of resourcefulness you brought to a problem the first time you encountered it and failed to fix it.

Brilliant.

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2. accrual ◴[16 Nov 25 12:48 UTC] No.45944724[source]▶
Reminded me of Einstein:

> We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them

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3. mosesbp ◴[16 Nov 25 14:44 UTC] No.45945489[source]▶
Since I assume you would be interested to know, this quote seems almost certainly misattributed to Einstein and seems to have been made up by Ram Dass [1]. Though I would be happy to be proved wrong if you have a source

[1] https://hsm.stackexchange.com/questions/7751/did-einstein-sa...

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4. accrual ◴[17 Nov 25 22:22 UTC] No.45959067{3}[source]▶
Interesting! Yeah, there appears to be a lot of discussion on the topic. My source indicating Einstein was no better. However, happy to attribute it to Ram Dass and/or Einstein, both were brilliant.