How to Measure Anything didn’t say anything about how to figure out what goals are worth pursuing, or give you the cognitive skills to notice that your thinking was being distorted, or maladaptive in some way.
From our offline conversations, I think you and I have an even deeper disagreement. I don’t think our cognitive skills are distorted. I think cognitive distortions are the fundamental building blocks from which our minds are constructed. I believe that if you remove distortions you’ll just get more distortions, basically forever, until it you get to the level of individual neurons, at which point our cognitive processes are just biophysics.
From our offline conversations, I think you and I have an even deeper disagreement. I don’t think our cognitive skills are distorted. I think cognitive distortions are the fundamental building blocks from which our minds are constructed. I believe that if you remove distortions you’ll just get more distortions, basically forever, until it you get to the level of individual neurons, at which point our cognitive processes are just biophysics.