I feel that the first step is to be open to other ways of seeing things, or to be open to the notion that you might be wrong about your assumptions or certainties. Very first step, that one… to doubt yourself in small, healthy doses. Then you naturally begin to ask questions, hopefully well-constructed, which (if you’re curious) will lead you to explore and gather data.
Yeah, I wasn’t too specific on that. I do endorse the piece that jb55 quotes below, but I’m still figuring out what to tell people to do. I’ll hopefully have more to say in the coming months.
seek detail you would not normally notice about the world. When you go for a walk, notice the unexpected detail in a flower or what the seams in the road imply about how the road was built. When you talk to someone who is smart but just seems so wrong, figure out what details seem important to them and why.
This felt important but I’m not quite sure what my next action is supposed to be.
I feel that the first step is to be open to other ways of seeing things, or to be open to the notion that you might be wrong about your assumptions or certainties. Very first step, that one… to doubt yourself in small, healthy doses. Then you naturally begin to ask questions, hopefully well-constructed, which (if you’re curious) will lead you to explore and gather data.
Yeah, I wasn’t too specific on that. I do endorse the piece that jb55 quotes below, but I’m still figuring out what to tell people to do. I’ll hopefully have more to say in the coming months.
The end had some good pointers: