— Philip Tetlock
People look for retreats for themselves, in the country, by the coast, or in the hills; and you too are especially inclined to feel this desire. But this is altogether unphilosophical, when it is possible for you to retreat into yourself at any time you want. There is nowhere that a person can find a …
— Doc Eifgrig Cognitive psychologists have named the way we learn “chunking”. When you want to internalize and understand a new concept with multiple moving parts you break it into pieces, or “chunks.” Most research shows we can handle about four or five chunks. In your head, you juggle these concepts around while you think …
— David Brooks (link) The young achievers are tutored in every soccer technique and calculus problem, but when it comes to their most important decisions—whom to marry and whom to befriend, what to love and what to despise—they are on their own. Nor, for all their striving, do they understand the qualities that lead to …
From “How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds” P. 20 In a 1994 essay called ‘Puritans and Prigs,’ Marilynne Robinson challenges the contemptuous attitude many people have towards the Puritans — the very word is no more than an insult now — and gives a more generous and accurate account of …