"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
what can you do to augment your perspective? This is where thought experiments come in handy.
Shane Parrish • The Great Mental Models Volume 2: Physics, Chemistry and Biology
The only way to get a good model of the world inside your head is to bump into the world, to let the light and sound impinge upon your eyes and ears, and let the world carve the details into your world-model.
Nate Soares • Dive in
The trick is to collide your mental model with the outside world as often as possible. This is what exploring does.
Henrik Karlsson • Almost Everyone I’ve Met Would Be Well-Served Thinking More About What to Focus On
It’s important to have a strong learning signal — a fast feedback loop between effort expended and success. This way, you’ll know quickly what it takes to succeed, and whether you can be happy doing so. Look for environments where competitors see themselves as playing a game, rather than fighting for survival — this prevents rankings within the hie... See more
Brian Timar • Mimetic
The Great Mental Models Volume 1: General Thinking Concepts
Rhiannon Beaubien • 1 highlight
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Yes — I think you have to, at some level, in some form, have the feeling for how things might be different and better in order to make a great discovery. I think you can be lucky, but even if you’re lucky and stumble into something, you’ve got to realize that it’s something and that you should pursue it. And that is usually driven by some feeling f... See more
On Being • Beauty as a Compass for Truth
YOUR BRAIN AS AN ABSTRACTION MACHINE • - I came across this Kerouac quote today and it grabbed me because it captures some of the most fundamental modern understanding about the way our brains work. What he’s referring to here is that when we shut off our perception of the outside world (by closing our eyes and focusing on the sensations occurring within the confines of our skin) we enter what’s called “interoceptive awareness”. - Our brains are remarkable in that we can focus our perception on internal events, a.k.a. interoception or on external events which is called “exteroception”. Most meditative practices involve a shift to the former. - Our brains are also remarkable in that we can focus our perception on the past, the present, or the future, or a combination of those. Most meditative practices also involve directing our focus to the present, again underscoring that we can control our perception to some extent. - Now here’s the remarkable part and the “lesson” I believe Kerouac was referring to: Because your brain is in the confines of your skull (the exception being your eyes which are part of the brain but outside the cranial vault), everything you know and perceive about the outside world is your brain’s abstract representation of what is “out there”. - It FEELS real but it’s just a picture, an abstract movie of what your brain assumes is around you based on your prior experience. And it’s accurate enough that it allowed us to evolve to be the dominant species on the planet, and certainly the best at building technologies. - I never thought of Kerouac as a neuroscientist, but I’m impressed by the amount of modern and accurate neuroscience information this short quote encapsulates. - We can learn a lot about ourselves by deliberately moving our perception from external to internal now and again. That process of shifting gives us a glimpse of how our nervous systems work. - Put any questions you might have in the comments section below this post, and as always, thank you for your interest interest in science! - @hubermanlab @stanford.med @stanford - #neuroscience #science #ciencia #neurociencia
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