Comments on: The One Where Richard Dawkins Taught Me About Cooking And Learning Languages /the-one-where-richard-dawkins-taught-me-about-cooking-and-learning/ You don't know a language, you live it. You don't learn a language, you get used to it. Sat, 04 Jul 2020 16:09:19 +0900 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.1.13 By: 魔法少女☆かなたん /the-one-where-richard-dawkins-taught-me-about-cooking-and-learning/#comment-1000064367 Mon, 06 Jan 2014 19:28:47 +0000 /?p=28217#comment-1000064367 “Many sane people drink soda pop but no sane person would actually put that much sugar into a drink they made at home, from scratch.”

Obviously, someone has never made the perfect lemonade.

]]> By: Pingfa /the-one-where-richard-dawkins-taught-me-about-cooking-and-learning/#comment-1000064321 Sun, 05 Jan 2014 17:33:32 +0000 /?p=28217#comment-1000064321 “Take the guidance; good guidance is good. Copy good ideas. But don’t take commands.”

True words. A lot of people don’t realize the difference. I remember once being called a sheep because I read personal development books, the same person also said I was a sheep for watching movies by specific directors, proudly stating ‘I don’t care who directed it’
Yet, those words were not their own, and that sentence has been said many times by many people.
If you’re speaking a language spoken by other people, you’re a copycat, you’re not ‘thinking for yourself’ If you’re watching something seen by others or reading something read by others, you’re not doing anything unique. After all:

“It’s not like I cook food that’s never been cooked before, made from ingredients that didn’t previously exist”

So yes. I’m a copycat. Our existence is the result of copycatting, so our creation was nothing creative.
To say someone is not individual for using something they did not create is like saying to a cat ‘you’re not the only one to use a litter tray, you know?’

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