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Essay of the week
Why Highly Intelligent People Are Often Not The Most Successful — Ego, overthinking, boredom, inaction and procrastination are a few of the many reasons many intelligent people are unsuccessful.
Insightful essays I read this week
Have We Been Thinking About Burnout All Wrong? — Hastick defines burnout as “the inability to sustain your wellness,” which severs the definitional tie between burnout and the workplace, and flips the focus onto what is being harmed.
How To Think Real Good — I enjoy thinking about thinking. That’s one reason I spent a dozen years in artificial intelligence research. To make a computer think, you’d need to understand how you think.
First Principles: The Building Blocks of True Knowledge — First-principles thinking is one of the best ways to reverse-engineer complicated problems and unleash creative possibility. Sometimes called “reasoning from first principles…
In praise of habits – so much more than mindless reflexes — Habit is the foundation of the routines that comprise the vast bulk of our everyday lives. When we are not disturbed, we live our practical lives without engaging in anything…
A concept worth understanding — The Curse of Knowledge: “A cognitive bias that occurs when an individual, communicating with other individuals, unknowingly assumes that the others have the background to understand." The more familiar you become with an idea the worse you become at explaining it to others.
Timeless Wisdom — Former professional poker player and behavioural decision scientist Annie Duke on what makes great decisions:
“What makes a decision great is not that it has a great outcome. A great decision is the result of a good process, and that process must include an attempt to accurately represent our own state of knowledge. That state of knowledge, in turn, is some variation of “I’m not sure.”
To our common journey,
Until next week,
Be Epic!
Thomas