Try Harder Fallacy

A fallacy is a shortcut with a pothole in it. Try Harder Fallacy is one of the busier potholes on the road of reasoning.

The fallacy survives because it is comfortable. It lets you keep your conclusion and skip the work. The cure is unfashionable: slow down, ask what the evidence actually shows, and let the conclusion follow.

A good librarian is a quiet revolutionary. She knows that a child with a borrowing card and a long afternoon is more dangerous to ignorance than any syllabus.

Learning is the one wealth that survives every partition of fortune. Write it on the wall of the mind, not the wall of the house. The house already has enough instructions.