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The Midwit Meme turns out to have a useful purpose, to remind us in a concise, memorable way that we cannot accept complicated solutions or explanations only because they feel smarter than a simple solution.
Philo • The Midwit Trap
failure to recognize the pervasiveness of the Pareto principle is a common factor in incorrectly rejecting simple solutions to complicated problems.
Philo • The Midwit Trap
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Ali Abdaal discusses blending Western therapy and Buddhist acceptance to manage challenges, shares insights on motivation and discipline, and promotes Brilliant, an interactive learning platform for enhancing problem-solving and understanding AI.
LinkThe most important food to constantly feed your brain is the problems you want it to be solving. These problems do not need to be grand like “solving world hunger.” Maybe one of your problems right now is what to get people for Christmas. You have to define clearly what those problems are and then constantly remind your brain to think about them.
Nat Eliason • The Art of Fermenting Great Ideas The Art of Fermenting Great Ideas
5/ You try to figure things out rather than feel through them
How do you drop a hot frying pan?
You feel it, and you will let go.
All your bad habits are hot frying pans.
Joe Hudsonx.comWe assume that a complex solution is likely to be the product of more sophisticated and nuanced reasoning than a simple solution, and thus more likely to be correct. This is far from true.