Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy

Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy is the argument equivalent of a cracked bangle — it shines, it jingles, and it will cut you.

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 the name. Use the pause it gives you. That is the entire homework.