A lot of people probably already know that, it’s a familiar “deep wisdom”, but anyway: you can use this not-changing of your mind to help you with seemingly complicated decisions that you ponder over for days.
Simply assign the possible answers and flip a coin (or roll a dice, if you need more than 2). It doesn’t matter what the result is, but depending on wether it matches your already-made decision you will either immediately reject the coin’s “answer” or not. That tells you what your first decision was, unclouded by any attempts to justify the other option(s).
Now, if you’ve trained your intuition (aka have the right set of Cached Thoughts), that answer will be the correct or better one. Or, as has happened to me more than once, you realize that both alternatives are actually wrong and your mind already came up with a better solution.
Without knowing the terms or technical explanation for it, this is what I have always been doing automatically for as long as I can remember making decisions conciously (generously apply confidence margin and overconfidence moderation proportional to applicable biases). However, upon reading the sequences here, I realize that several problems I have identified in my thought strategies actually stem from my reliance on training my intuition and subconscious for what I now know to be simply better cached thoughts.
It turns out that no matter how well you organize and train your Caches and other automatic thinking, belief-forming and decision-making processes, some structural human biases are virtually impossible to eliminate by strictly relying on this method. What’s more, by having relied on this for so long, I find myself having even more difficulty training my mind to think better.
A lot of people probably already know that, it’s a familiar “deep wisdom”, but anyway: you can use this not-changing of your mind to help you with seemingly complicated decisions that you ponder over for days. Simply assign the possible answers and flip a coin (or roll a dice, if you need more than 2). It doesn’t matter what the result is, but depending on wether it matches your already-made decision you will either immediately reject the coin’s “answer” or not. That tells you what your first decision was, unclouded by any attempts to justify the other option(s).
Now, if you’ve trained your intuition (aka have the right set of Cached Thoughts), that answer will be the correct or better one. Or, as has happened to me more than once, you realize that both alternatives are actually wrong and your mind already came up with a better solution.
Without knowing the terms or technical explanation for it, this is what I have always been doing automatically for as long as I can remember making decisions conciously (generously apply confidence margin and overconfidence moderation proportional to applicable biases). However, upon reading the sequences here, I realize that several problems I have identified in my thought strategies actually stem from my reliance on training my intuition and subconscious for what I now know to be simply better cached thoughts.
It turns out that no matter how well you organize and train your Caches and other automatic thinking, belief-forming and decision-making processes, some structural human biases are virtually impossible to eliminate by strictly relying on this method. What’s more, by having relied on this for so long, I find myself having even more difficulty training my mind to think better.