This random article I found repeats the Tim Ferriss claim re: successful people who meditate, but I haven’t checked where it appears in the book Tools of Titans:
In his best-selling book Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers, Tim Ferriss interviews more than 200 executives, leaders, and world-class performers. He found that more than 80 percent practiced some form of mindfulness or meditation. Among some of the most successful people in the world, Ferriss uncovered the Most Consistent Pattern Of All, connecting world-class athletes with billionaire investors: meditation.
Other than that, I don’t see why you’d relate meditation just to high-pressure contexts, rather than also conscientiousness, goal-directedness, etc. To me, it does also seem directly related to increasing philosophical problem-solving ability. Particularly when it comes to reasoning about consciousness and other stuff where an improved introspection helps most. Sam Harris would be kind of a posterchild for this, right?
What I can’t see meditation doing is to provide the kind of multiple SD intelligence amplification you’re interested in, plus it has other issues like taking a lot of time (though a “meditation pill” would resolve that) and potential value drift.
This random article I found repeats the Tim Ferriss claim re: successful people who meditate, but I haven’t checked where it appears in the book Tools of Titans:
Other than that, I don’t see why you’d relate meditation just to high-pressure contexts, rather than also conscientiousness, goal-directedness, etc. To me, it does also seem directly related to increasing philosophical problem-solving ability. Particularly when it comes to reasoning about consciousness and other stuff where an improved introspection helps most. Sam Harris would be kind of a posterchild for this, right?
What I can’t see meditation doing is to provide the kind of multiple SD intelligence amplification you’re interested in, plus it has other issues like taking a lot of time (though a “meditation pill” would resolve that) and potential value drift.