If you tell someone who doesn’t know X to look for it because X is in Y, they can’t find it.

  • If you are given a cardboard box and told to “look for a buba in here,” you can’t look for it because you don’t know what a buba is.
  • I suppose the same could be said for “The right answer is find it inside you.”

Related The Paradox of Search. We need to verbalize how to find them.


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