Posts Tagged ‘thinking clear’
What is to be done for Irrational behaviors?
Posted by: adonis49 on: May 19, 2021
The Cold rational concept of Irrational behaviors.
Posted on October 4, 2014
Why most of our decisions and reactions seem to be pretty much irrational?
A Cold attempt was undertaken to remind ourselves of a few facts and realities to be taken into consideration:
1. Thinking is not a “pure process”.
2. Thinking is prone to error and this realization affects everyone
3. Highly intelligent people fall prey to the same cognitive traps as common people
4. And errors are Not randomly distributed.
5. Mankind systematically err in the same direction
6. Our mistakes are mostly predictable and can be repaired and avoided in slight degrees
7. Most of our organs function predictably, but our brain keep experiencing lapse after lapse
8. Thinking is a biological phenomenon: It does not follow an abstract mathematical logic.
9. We are still a hunter-gatherer species, but living in a totally different environment
10. Our new environment is getting increasingly complex, interdependent, and man-made functions and facilities are exacerbating the frequency of faulty behaviors
11. Evolution has stopped optimizing the behavior of this hunter-gatherer species in this new environment.
12. Our brain is designed to reproduce (persuade) rather than search for the “truth”
13. We tend to construct a reason for our compulsive decisions (intuitive reaction). a justification for a predetermined conclusion.
What is to be done?
1. When in your “circle of competence”, let your intuition lead your decisions and reactions. You had invested more than 10,000 hours on your talents and skills and you can now rely of your bodily reactions.
2. Otherwise, do your due diligence to apply the hard, slow and high energy consuming process of the rational thinking on your projects and serious decisions.
Think clear and go through the long list of behavioral biases, fallacies, illusions, myths.. and start eliminating one error after another from the list of prone error tendencies.
Rational thinking might Not give you a correct resolution, but again, you have been vaunting the superiority of mankind brain over other species who actually have far better abilities and capabilities than us in many domains.
Repeat the rational thinking process as you invested in acquiring your talents.
Note 1: Read “The Art of Thinking Clear”
Note 2: I have realized that I prefer to extend only one opinion on an issue, the best of my opinions and never give choices. Why?
1. If the opinion is found correct by the reader, the better off he is. And the reader was not disturbed and confused by contradicting alternatives and could assimilate the single opinion.
2. If the opinion is “proved” flawed, it is a marvelous opportunity for the reader to reflect deeper on the topic, reach a proper alternative and incorporate it in his unique worldview model
Art of thinking Clear? Like “What Not to do”
Posted by: adonis49 on: March 15, 2021
Simple. I removed everything that is Not David
Posted on: November 23, 2014
Do you know with certainty what destroys success or happiness?
Are you more attuned to “What Not to do“, a more potent approach than “What to do”?
Kind of eliminating all possible errors and discover that Thinking better follows?
Do you focus on removing all the blocks and hurdles to your success?
“Simple. I removed everything that is Not David”. This is the response of Michelangelo to the Pope asking him how he managed to sculpt his famous David.
Nowadays, brilliant people consider the notion of “What Not to do” as counter-intuitive and down right counter to human spirit, and go ahead and destroy and massively exhaust earth and nature.
Complete control of our emotions through thinking clear is illusory: Our willpower will be frequently dangerously depleted if we try to continuously sustain our control for long period.
Overthinking will eventually trip you out of balance. For example, why test 45 varieties of strawberry jelly, by expert tasters, if it is demonstrated that expert and common people preferred the same type of strawberry Jelly? (Still, Keep experimenting with strawberry taste for other cultures)
If people are given a questionnaire to rank the variety of Jelly, the ones they actually liked are ranked in the bottom of the list.
If you are pressured to think too much, you end up cutting off your mind from the wisdom of your feelings.
Emotions and rational thinking are merely a different form of information processing: The primordial process does Not necessarily generate inferior variant of the complex rational process.
Rely on your circle of competence, otherwise, rely on your mental shortcuts in emergency situations.
Remember that sober reflection is Not innate to mankind evolution.
Consequently, you are better off relying on your intuition for decisions outside your circle of competence.
Read: Art of Thinking Clear
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