After skimming some of his stuff on Amazon, I bought the whole “Mager Six-Pack” and am eagerly devouring it. I can already tell it″s going to make a huge difference in the way I teach mind-hacking.
One of the first ones I read, Goal Analysis, is particularly relevant to LW discussions: how to turn “fuzzies” (abstract qualities, adjectives, and adverbs) into concrete, measurable specifications of behavior. One minor catch: goal analysis can’t make people magically agree on the True Meaning of a term, it can only expose the things they do or don’t agree on...
...which probably makes it an incredibly valuable Rationality Tool in its own right.
Anyway, thanks for mentioning Mager’s books—I’d never heard of them before your comment.
After skimming some of his stuff on Amazon, I bought the whole “Mager Six-Pack” and am eagerly devouring it. I can already tell it″s going to make a huge difference in the way I teach mind-hacking.
One of the first ones I read, Goal Analysis, is particularly relevant to LW discussions: how to turn “fuzzies” (abstract qualities, adjectives, and adverbs) into concrete, measurable specifications of behavior. One minor catch: goal analysis can’t make people magically agree on the True Meaning of a term, it can only expose the things they do or don’t agree on...
...which probably makes it an incredibly valuable Rationality Tool in its own right.
Anyway, thanks for mentioning Mager’s books—I’d never heard of them before your comment.