G.I. Joe Fallacy

You have heard G.I. Joe Fallacy at a dinner table, perhaps from an uncle, perhaps from yourself. It is a common family inheritance.

The error is seductive because it imitates a virtue. It sounds like loyalty, or confidence, or common sense. But follow it home and you find it lives in a house with no foundation.

Watch a master carpenter teach an apprentice. He does not lecture; he lets the boy hold the wrong end of the saw until the wood itself becomes the teacher.

Learning is the one wealth that survives every partition of fortune. Keep it like a good key: accessible, unlabelled, and used often.