"People who develop high perceptiveness have typically engaged in some activity that has put them in a tight feedback loop with reality." https://t.co/RaNWhZ1RHq
"People who develop high perceptiveness have typically engaged in some activity that has put them in a tight feedback loop with reality." https://t.co/RaNWhZ1RHq
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Kevin Kelly • Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier
If you can break inaccurate mental models, life becomes easier to navigate. But how do you do that? I know two ways.
- Find people who understand things better than you and read what they have to say. Read with the intention of answering your questions. If you can’t find the answers, email them.
- Perform experiments. By this I don’t mean do random thing
Henrik Karlsson • Almost Everyone I’ve Met Would Be Well-Served Thinking More About What to Focus On
When Abraham Maslow did clinical studies of people who self-actualized, one thing that set them apart from others was, he wrote, that they lived “more in the real world of nature than in the man-made mass of concepts, abstractions, expectations, beliefs, and stereotypes that most people confuse with the world.” They were, to put it simply, more per... See more
Henrik Karlsson • Becoming Perceptive
This problem is not easy to fix, but it’s not impossible either. I’ve mostly fixed it for myself. The direction for improvement is clear: seek detail you would not normally notice about the world. When you go for a walk, notice the unexpected detail in a flower or what the seams in the road imply about how the road was built. When you talk to someo... See more