Okay, let’s suppose for a second that I buy that teaching students to be goal oriented helps them significantly. That still leaves quite a few questions:
Many school boards already try to teach students to be goal oriented. Certainly “list out realistic goals” was said to me countless times in my own schooling. What do you plan to do differently?
I plan to teach students actually how to be goal oriented. It’s the difference between telling people “lose weight” and specifically giving them clear instructions for how to do is. Here is an example of how I do so in a videotaped workshop.
I would like to have an experimental attitude to LW content, and will look forward to see the results of my experiments. I don’t intend to do the extreme rationality stuff, and expect more of it than it can deliver. We’ll see, I guess :-)
Okay, let’s suppose for a second that I buy that teaching students to be goal oriented helps them significantly. That still leaves quite a few questions:
Many school boards already try to teach students to be goal oriented. Certainly “list out realistic goals” was said to me countless times in my own schooling. What do you plan to do differently?
There seems to be no evidence at all that LW material is better for life outcomes than any other self-help program, and some evidence that it’s worse. Consider this post (again by Scott): http://lesswrong.com/lw/9p/extreme_rationality_its_not_that_great/
I plan to teach students actually how to be goal oriented. It’s the difference between telling people “lose weight” and specifically giving them clear instructions for how to do is. Here is an example of how I do so in a videotaped workshop.
I would like to have an experimental attitude to LW content, and will look forward to see the results of my experiments. I don’t intend to do the extreme rationality stuff, and expect more of it than it can deliver. We’ll see, I guess :-)