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#2
metacognitive = think about our thinking
-> recognize cognitive blind spots in knowledges & opinions
-> fill or correct them
Confident humility (sweet spot of confidence)
= confident in your ability to achieve a goal in the future while maintaining the humility to question whether you have the right tools in the present
benefit of the doubt = a cue to improve the tools
-> work harder, smarter, better learner
— Oct 06, 2025 10:12PM
metacognitive = think about our thinking
-> recognize cognitive blind spots in knowledges & opinions
-> fill or correct them
Confident humility (sweet spot of confidence)
= confident in your ability to achieve a goal in the future while maintaining the humility to question whether you have the right tools in the present
benefit of the doubt = a cue to improve the tools
-> work harder, smarter, better learner
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Reader
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#4
Task VS Relationship Conflicts
Be a Disagreeable Giver.
Frame a dispute as debate, "Can we debate?"
Have a good fight on How, not Why.
Help them see the limits of their understanding by asking them to unpack the mechanisms -> Ask basic, fundamental questions.
— Oct 29, 2025 08:46AM
Task VS Relationship Conflicts
Be a Disagreeable Giver.
Frame a dispute as debate, "Can we debate?"
Have a good fight on How, not Why.
Help them see the limits of their understanding by asking them to unpack the mechanisms -> Ask basic, fundamental questions.
Reader
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#3-2
Best forecasters in tournaments were those who update their views frequently.
How much rethinking is necessary? Just a few more, but it's unusual.
Few evidences are enough for conclusions but not for revising them.
Change opinions, when facts change. Odds are based on facts.
To be right in a long run, you have to be wrong A LOT in short runs.
When forming an opinion, look for conditions to prove it false.
— Oct 19, 2025 07:45PM
Best forecasters in tournaments were those who update their views frequently.
How much rethinking is necessary? Just a few more, but it's unusual.
Few evidences are enough for conclusions but not for revising them.
Change opinions, when facts change. Odds are based on facts.
To be right in a long run, you have to be wrong A LOT in short runs.
When forming an opinion, look for conditions to prove it false.
Reader
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#3-1
Being wrong is the only way to know we’ve learned something
Detach
1. Your present from your past
2. Your opinions from your identity
= your present and opinions shouldn't be tied to anything
Even positive changes causes negative emotions; derailed / disconnected
the world changes. knowledge evolves. rethink.
define yourself by values , not opinions
-> flexibility to update the best ways to advance them
— Oct 12, 2025 02:36AM
Being wrong is the only way to know we’ve learned something
Detach
1. Your present from your past
2. Your opinions from your identity
= your present and opinions shouldn't be tied to anything
Even positive changes causes negative emotions; derailed / disconnected
the world changes. knowledge evolves. rethink.
define yourself by values , not opinions
-> flexibility to update the best ways to advance them
Reader
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Scientist mode: search for the truth (why we're wrong, not why I'm right). Experiment (test the alternative hypotheses).
Smarter -> easier to recognize patterns -> easier for confirmation & desirability bias
Learning for belief evolution
— Oct 04, 2025 07:32AM
Smarter -> easier to recognize patterns -> easier for confirmation & desirability bias
Learning for belief evolution
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preachers: I'm right
prosecutors: You are wrong
politicians: win over an audience
— Sep 30, 2025 06:03AM
prosecutors: You are wrong
politicians: win over an audience
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We cling to our exiting tools (assumption, instinct, habit).
Rethink "Without my tools, who am I?" And Unlearn.
— Sep 30, 2025 06:02AM
Rethink "Without my tools, who am I?" And Unlearn.
