"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
That a portrait painter gets better at seeing faces and a scientist better at seeing the thing they study is unsurprising, but do they get more perceptive overall? Probably a little bit. They at the very least learn to appreciate how hard it is to see what is really going on.
Henrik Karlsson • Becoming Perceptive
Mastery in any field, from cooking to chess to brain surgery, is a gradual accretion of knowledge, conceptual understanding, judgment, and skill. These are the fruits of variety in the practice of new skills, and of striving, reflection, and mental rehearsal.
Henry L. Roediger III • Make It Stick
Though Shell, BP, Hanover, and Harley-Davidson took very different approaches to developing capacity to work with mental models, their work involved developing skills in two broad categories: skills of reflection and skills of inquiry. Skills of reflection concern slowing down our own thinking processes so that we can become more aware of how we fo
... See morePeter M. Senge • The Fifth Discipline
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
So what we see is that self-actualization is a flywheel: you become self-actualized by seeing reality clearly so you can design a life that fits you, and you become better at seeing reality by engaging with it head-on.