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Tip-Off #35 - Negative Capability

Tip-Off #35 - Negative Capability

"There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing." - Robert Burns

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Aug 13, 2022
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The poet John Keats coined the term "negative capability" to describe the quality of "being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason." Negative here is not pejorative. It's honest. It speaks to life as it is, not as we would like it to be.

Beset by "positive thinking," honesty is especially hard. Problems …

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