Meditation seemed useful to me. Other forms of “introspection” (cognitive biases, direct querying of “what would I do in situation X” in my brain, psychology) were more like “extrospection”—I’d infer my thoughts by my behavior. Meditation seemed to have a shorter inferential distance. I don’t have a good non-introspective reason to believe this, although it did seem to get me over procrastination for the first time in weeks, and helped me graduate.
I’ll find out whether this continues to hold true as I resume meditation.
I like the word “extrospection.” Learning better “extrospection” is probably just as useful in its own way as learning better introspection, and you’re right that it uses different skills. It would be neat if it were possible to somehow link the two..
Meditation seemed useful to me. Other forms of “introspection” (cognitive biases, direct querying of “what would I do in situation X” in my brain, psychology) were more like “extrospection”—I’d infer my thoughts by my behavior. Meditation seemed to have a shorter inferential distance. I don’t have a good non-introspective reason to believe this, although it did seem to get me over procrastination for the first time in weeks, and helped me graduate. I’ll find out whether this continues to hold true as I resume meditation.
I like the word “extrospection.” Learning better “extrospection” is probably just as useful in its own way as learning better introspection, and you’re right that it uses different skills. It would be neat if it were possible to somehow link the two..