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However, this greater time spent thinking also causes experts to be more rigid and dogmatic in their thinking. This combined with the ivory tower that experts can sometimes live in can result in them completely overlooking important, left-field new ideas.

In the gig economy: To earn more, you just have to do more gigs, do more work, put in more hours, take on an additional task…

A  hard  quest is high-risk and operationally complex, with a low chance of success. Reversing aging, going to Mars, curing cancer, building a supersonic plane, creating AGI, or founding a new country — these are all  hard  quests, and most players attempting these quests will fail. 

An easy quest is typically more straightf

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What do I desperately want to be true, so much that I think it’s true when it’s clearly not?

Habits are undeniably useful tools, relieving us of the need to run a complex mental operation every time we’re confronted with a new task or situation. Yet they also relieve us of the need to stay awake to the world: to attend, feel, think, and then act in a deliberate manner. (That is, from freedom rather than compulsion.) If you need to be remin... See more