learning
For deeper understanding and better memory, try turning everything you learn into something new – a note, a tweet, a presentation, a blog post, a video. This is called the Generation Effect, and it’s one of the best habits you can build.
Anne-Laure Le Cunfftwitter.comOur middle school teachers knew one thing: that writing things down – or translating what you learn into some other medium/form – is essential for learning.
People were my new puzzle. Every time someone said something that I thought was crazy/irrational, I got excited: it was a new clue about a world view I can’t (yet) predict!
Defender's Corner • Geoffrey Hinton on developing your own framework for understanding reality
What a mindset!
...[A]spirants must grow comfortable with a certain quantity of awkward pretense. If someone were to ask you why you enrolled, you would be overreaching if you said that you were moved by the profound beauty of classical music. The truth, which is harder to communicate, is that you have some vague sense of its value, which you hope that some future... See more
how to change your life, part 2: agnes callard's aspiration
can I predict what their reaction will be to what I say? why would a reasonable person disagree with my position? if I am so smart, and they are so dumb, why can’t I use my intellect to understand what they’re stuck on and convince them?
Defender's Corner • Geoffrey Hinton on developing your own framework for understanding reality
questions to test if you actually understand something (in this case political positions - can be extended to topics beyond this)
I started to realize that there was ALWAYS a reason why people were acting in ways that were confusing to me. When they did something “confusing”, it was because I had a specific mental model of what their incentives/desires are, and I never updated that model when I got new information .