As a separate comment since it feels like a pretty different thread:
I do have a vague hypothesis that the very first part of the Looking skill might be a prerequisite for IDC and frankly a lot of CFAR techniques. I don’t think you need a lot of it, but there feels like there’s a first insight that makes further conversations about things downstream from it a million times easier. (For programmers: it feels similar to whatever the insight is that separates people who just can’t get the concept of a function from people who can.) It annoys me a lot that I don’t yet have a consistent tool for helping people quickly get the first skillpoint in Looking, and fixing that is one of my top pedagogical priorities at the moment.
Datapoint: I attended a CFAR workshop at the end of 2014; back then, I didn’t have enough skill in meditation to Look, and if Val had posted his stuff about Looking in say 2015, I wouldn’t have understood what the hell he was talking about. But I do have an e-mail written in 2015, where someone asked me about the kinds of benefits I think I get from meditation, and I mentioned that doing meditation seems to help cultivate the kind of mental awareness that—among other things—makes it easier to use CFAR techniques.
As a separate comment since it feels like a pretty different thread:
I do have a vague hypothesis that the very first part of the Looking skill might be a prerequisite for IDC and frankly a lot of CFAR techniques. I don’t think you need a lot of it, but there feels like there’s a first insight that makes further conversations about things downstream from it a million times easier. (For programmers: it feels similar to whatever the insight is that separates people who just can’t get the concept of a function from people who can.) It annoys me a lot that I don’t yet have a consistent tool for helping people quickly get the first skillpoint in Looking, and fixing that is one of my top pedagogical priorities at the moment.
Datapoint: I attended a CFAR workshop at the end of 2014; back then, I didn’t have enough skill in meditation to Look, and if Val had posted his stuff about Looking in say 2015, I wouldn’t have understood what the hell he was talking about. But I do have an e-mail written in 2015, where someone asked me about the kinds of benefits I think I get from meditation, and I mentioned that doing meditation seems to help cultivate the kind of mental awareness that—among other things—makes it easier to use CFAR techniques.