Skills Cycle Between Learning Critical Fallibilism and Its Prerequisites Summary: If you want to be a great philosopher, you’ll need to get really good at a bunch of prerequisites. But don’t just study one prerequisite at a time until you finish it. Instead, you should cycle back and forth between learning prerequisites and learning the more advanced
Skills Learning and the Subconscious Bullet Points Summary: Your subconscious has most of your brainpower. To become a great thinker, focus on teaching your subconscious and delegating work to it. Don’t focus on conscious analysis. The subconscious isn’t the irrational part of your mind; it’s a necessary part of rational thinking. I explain the
Skills Conscious and Subconscious Ideas As a useful approximation, we can divide all our ideas into two categories. One category is conscious or explicit ideas (ideas that you can put into words). The other category is subconscious, inexplicit or intuitive ideas, including emotions. Sometimes we have no conscious awareness of a subconscious idea. However, it’
Skills Intuition Is Part of Rational Living Your conscious and subconscious mind are like a boss and workers.
Skills Intuition and Rational Debate Previously I wrote Don’t Suppress Your Intuition and Intuition and Rationality. I’m now expanding on ideas in those articles. I recommend reading them first. A key to not being bullied in debates is knowing how to say “I intuitively disagree with that.” If you won’t express intuitive
Skills Projects, Activities and Using Discussion Forums The difference between projects and activities. And how to use discussion forums.