It’s not clear to me at all that explicitly studying rationality (out of an academic interest, as insight porn, whatever) makes you more successful in achieving outcomes which give you a “nice feel”, compared to just mimicking/internalising heuristics and social cues by ways of being embedded in a subculture implementing them (probably without reflecting too much).
Studying “the art of winning”, doesn’t equal acquiring the knack to implement it, especially if the “it” turns out to be internalising all sort of hacked-together heuristics such that they become second-nature. Similar to how academically studying what makes a Roman a Roman probably makes you less of a Roman than simply growing up in a Roman household.
Consider studying acting tricks versus living as an actor, mimicking the tricks without even realizing.
Or mental discipline—you can learn all day long how important it is, just being trained to have mental endurance (without the term ever coming) as a child will outweigh all that and more.
Studying “the art of winning”, doesn’t equal acquiring the knack to implement it
If it doesn’t include it, it’s a poor sort of studying. Studying rationality “out of an academic interest, as insight porn, whatever” is not what I would call “studying”.
It’s not clear to me at all that explicitly studying rationality (out of an academic interest, as insight porn, whatever) makes you more successful in achieving outcomes which give you a “nice feel”, compared to just mimicking/internalising heuristics and social cues by ways of being embedded in a subculture implementing them (probably without reflecting too much).
Studying “the art of winning”, doesn’t equal acquiring the knack to implement it, especially if the “it” turns out to be internalising all sort of hacked-together heuristics such that they become second-nature. Similar to how academically studying what makes a Roman a Roman probably makes you less of a Roman than simply growing up in a Roman household.
Consider studying acting tricks versus living as an actor, mimicking the tricks without even realizing.
Or mental discipline—you can learn all day long how important it is, just being trained to have mental endurance (without the term ever coming) as a child will outweigh all that and more.
If it doesn’t include it, it’s a poor sort of studying. Studying rationality “out of an academic interest, as insight porn, whatever” is not what I would call “studying”.