Financial Times: you cannot reduce anything truly worthwhile to a technique
“Ultimately, however, none of these provides a satisfactory answer because it is indeed a genuine paradox, an irresolvable contradiction at the heart of human existence. The best we can do, suggests Slingerland, is “to not push too hard when trying is bad, and not think too much when reflection is the enemy”. If we do that, “the flow of life is always there, eager to pull us along in its wake.””
Julian Baggini, “Templates for gaining wisdom,” Financial Times, March 7th 2014.