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to be very clear, attachment styles are not real, IFS parts are not real, none of that stuff is real, in a specific sense. it's scaffolding. it's pointers to the rough shape of more subtle dynamics that one can come to understand in much more granular phenomenological detail

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Thought is a mess

Their three flaws: 1) they think in statics not dynamics, 2) they think in low, not high, dimensions, 3) they think in terms of actions, never interactions.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb • Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

The Reversal Test: When considering a proposed policy, imagine if the roles were reversed. For example, if a policy proposes special treatment for a particular group, consider if you would support it if your own group were not the beneficiary. This experiment, proposed by philosopher Nick Beckstead, can help reveal biases and inconsistencies in our... See more

The Pervasiveness of Alternative-Focused Thinking

Ralph L. KEENEY • Value-Focused Thinking: A Path to Creative Decisionmaking

There is something very wrong with that entire conventional model of decision-making, both within single minds and for groups as assumed in social-choice theory. It conceives of decision-making as a process of selecting from existing options according to a fixed formula (such as an apportionment rule or electoral system). But in fact that is what

David Deutsch • The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World

“Emotion-thought is the root of delusion, a stubborn attachment to a one-sided point of view, formed by our own conditioned perceptions.”

Charlotte J. Beck • Everyday Zen: Love and Work (Plus)

people are not very good at dealing with grey areas. for something to be argumentative, the idea should be expressed in extreme opposites. the middle is not to be talked about. so the logic is the same too, in logic, this is called the excluded middle.

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