My immediate thought was “Do you mean the best for reliably becoming affluent, or the ones that have the potential to make you the richest?”
I think I have a pretty general tendency to stay on system 2 reasoning when asked hard to answer questions by reflexively looking for ways to clarify rather than reframe the question. I don’t know if this is something I ever went through a learning process for.
I often find myself getting stuck on the “come up with a better solution” step though. Since I didn’t generate another answer in the first place, “How should financial advisers who prey on the elderly be punished?” becomes “How much do I care about working out a fair, effectively preventative punishment for financial advisers who prey on the elderly? I could be at this for a while.”
At least coming up with an answer of “I don’t care enough about this/have a good reason to figure this out properly” gives you useful information on your own motives and the gaps in your knowledge.
My immediate thought was “Do you mean the best for reliably becoming affluent, or the ones that have the potential to make you the richest?”
I think I have a pretty general tendency to stay on system 2 reasoning when asked hard to answer questions by reflexively looking for ways to clarify rather than reframe the question. I don’t know if this is something I ever went through a learning process for.
I often find myself getting stuck on the “come up with a better solution” step though. Since I didn’t generate another answer in the first place, “How should financial advisers who prey on the elderly be punished?” becomes “How much do I care about working out a fair, effectively preventative punishment for financial advisers who prey on the elderly? I could be at this for a while.”
At least coming up with an answer of “I don’t care enough about this/have a good reason to figure this out properly” gives you useful information on your own motives and the gaps in your knowledge.