15 notes tagged with "rationality"

Bullshit filters

Source These are heuristics, not hard-and-fast rules. 1. Are they free to speak their minds? If they are in an institution – who funds it…

Tagged with: #filters, #heuristics, #literature-notes, #mental-models, #rationality

Published on 2 years ago

Confidence to Convince Others

People think that you need absolute certainty when communicating your opinions to others for others to accept them. This is what I call…

Tagged with: #permanent-notes, #rationality, #confidence, #persuasion

Published on 2 years ago

Get Better at Being Wrong

How to get better at being wrong... Admit that your are wrong. Get into a habit of making an acknowledgment of your mistake Seek to prove…

Tagged with: #permanent-notes, #decision-making, #cognition, #psychology, #rationality

Published on a year ago

Good Epistemic Habits

Instead of talking only about things that you are convinced about, talk also about things that you believe along with the path you took to…

Tagged with: #permanent-notes, #knowledge, #belief, #epistemology, #rationality

Published on a year ago

Map vs Territory

Map is a simplified representation of the reality(territory) in someone's mind. People generally confuse map for territory - but Map is not…

Tagged with: #rationality, #map, #nlp, #permanent-notes, #meta-cognition

Published on 2 years ago

Mental Models

Mental Model is a simplified mental representation of a complex real world system. Mental Model is how we understand the world. When we try…

Tagged with: #permanent-notes, #framework, #meta-cognition, #rationality, #mental-models

Published on 2 years ago

Motivated Reasoning

Motivated Reasoning is a Cognitive bias - we tend to accept/believe more easily and with less scrutiny things we think are correct . If we…

Tagged with: #rationality, #reasoning, #permanent-notes, #psychology, #cognitive-bias

Published on 2 years ago

OODA Loop

Decision making process and Mental Model Observe Orient Decide Act Its a learning system - lets you operate in uncertainty. The idea is to…

Tagged with: #permanent-notes, #mental-models, #decision-making, #rationality, #competition

Published on 2 years ago

Scout Mindset vs Soldier Mindset

Soldier mindset thinks of their ideas as the land to defend - and attacks other external ideas or evidence that threaten their idea. Scout…

Tagged with: #permanent-notes, #rationality, #mindset, #meta-cognition

Published on 2 years ago

Second-order thinking

This is a tool that makes you think of the long term consequences of your decisions . Process... Think of the decision you are considering…

Tagged with: #permanent-notes, #decision-making, #rationality, #framework, #cognition

Published on a year ago

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