This has been useful for me in crystallising things that I had noticed but not made as clear.
In particular, it...
highlights the importance of practice, the value of which I think is neglected in the rationality community. (The thing that caused me to stop neglecting it was training to become a cfar instructor, and being put in the environment where it was expected that anything you taught should be grounded in actual, real examples; and that if you didn’t have any you weren’t ready to teach, and it would not be unreasonable to practice a technique for 20+ hours; and that techniques are learnable skills just like playing the piano or something; and that any person working at cfar, regardless of seniority, will attend classes and think anew about the content and how they can improve)
deconfuses several self-improvement concepts that are often batched together
This has been useful for me in crystallising things that I had noticed but not made as clear.
In particular, it...
highlights the importance of practice, the value of which I think is neglected in the rationality community. (The thing that caused me to stop neglecting it was training to become a cfar instructor, and being put in the environment where it was expected that anything you taught should be grounded in actual, real examples; and that if you didn’t have any you weren’t ready to teach, and it would not be unreasonable to practice a technique for 20+ hours; and that techniques are learnable skills just like playing the piano or something; and that any person working at cfar, regardless of seniority, will attend classes and think anew about the content and how they can improve)
deconfuses several self-improvement concepts that are often batched together