Have you experimented or played around with ways of teaching these lower-level skills?
Yes. As a practical matter, it’s more like teaching people what to stop doing than what to do—i.e. to stop talking over their experience and speculating about it. Some people are worse about doing that than others; you have to stop them a lot before they “get it”.
More recently, I’ve been teaching people my SEED mnemonic, and it seems to help them realize what they’re supposed to be paying attention to, but I don’t have any real empirical data on that. I’d have to get a bunch of untrained people and test how quickly they were able to stop abstracting experiences, having split them into a control and experimental group… and then I’d still have no way to blind myself, unless somebody else taught them about SEEDs.
Yes. As a practical matter, it’s more like teaching people what to stop doing than what to do—i.e. to stop talking over their experience and speculating about it. Some people are worse about doing that than others; you have to stop them a lot before they “get it”.
More recently, I’ve been teaching people my SEED mnemonic, and it seems to help them realize what they’re supposed to be paying attention to, but I don’t have any real empirical data on that. I’d have to get a bunch of untrained people and test how quickly they were able to stop abstracting experiences, having split them into a control and experimental group… and then I’d still have no way to blind myself, unless somebody else taught them about SEEDs.