I believe that winning is important & necessary. At least four elements contribute to individual winning:
Community
Humans are social animals, loneliness kills, and “reaching one’s highest potential” is facilitated by membership in a value-aligned motivated & ambitious community (e.g. “it takes a village”, “paypal mafia”, or “manhattan project”).
Cognition
See essentially the whole idea of the Rationalist community, heuristics & biases research, understanding thought processes & building better ones, using deliberate practice to improve cognitive habits, logical analysis, and intellectual rigor. Well trained cognitive skills & habits are imperative for winning at many things humans pursue.
Emotions
What do you shy away from that is holding you back? What ideas do you drift towards and why? What emotional baggage seeps into your cognition and subtly infects not only the conclusions you proclaim but even your priors & frameworks of thought? Are you too anxious around other people and struggle being a member of a community? You must know yourself & come to thorough understanding regarding your emotions and how they influence you, otherwise you may fail before you even start.
Wellness
Human beings who are not in good health nor in good physical shape are negatively impacted by those states of being: eating well, being in good health, and high physical fitness are of paramount importance for optimizing one’s cognition, and are useful too for improving emotional states, all of which are helpful for one’s membership & status in a community. This is not to say that a person can’t do well or even thrive if the conditions mentioned here for wellness are not met, rather...not being at peak or very high wellness IS applying negative pressure against their thriving.
I intend to flesh out those four elements of winning more & turn them into a proper post. If you’ve read this, any feedback, comments, or suggestions? I will be using the elements of winning as guides when creating my meetup group’s dojo. I did not mention why I think winning is so important as I take winning as a given good, but I suspect pointing at a few reasons why might be helpful for readers so I’ll include that in the post.
In other news, I will be playing a Kenku Artificer Artillerest in an upcoming D&D campaign and am excited for that, looks like a lot of fun :)
Upcoming announcements for Norfolk Rationalists & Houston rationalists should occur tomorrow for at least one announcement, with the rest hopefully produced by midweek at the latest.
Shortform #91 Winning as an Individual: thoughts
I believe that winning is important & necessary. At least four elements contribute to individual winning:
Community
Humans are social animals, loneliness kills, and “reaching one’s highest potential” is facilitated by membership in a value-aligned motivated & ambitious community (e.g. “it takes a village”, “paypal mafia”, or “manhattan project”).
Cognition
See essentially the whole idea of the Rationalist community, heuristics & biases research, understanding thought processes & building better ones, using deliberate practice to improve cognitive habits, logical analysis, and intellectual rigor. Well trained cognitive skills & habits are imperative for winning at many things humans pursue.
Emotions
What do you shy away from that is holding you back? What ideas do you drift towards and why? What emotional baggage seeps into your cognition and subtly infects not only the conclusions you proclaim but even your priors & frameworks of thought? Are you too anxious around other people and struggle being a member of a community? You must know yourself & come to thorough understanding regarding your emotions and how they influence you, otherwise you may fail before you even start.
Wellness
Human beings who are not in good health nor in good physical shape are negatively impacted by those states of being: eating well, being in good health, and high physical fitness are of paramount importance for optimizing one’s cognition, and are useful too for improving emotional states, all of which are helpful for one’s membership & status in a community. This is not to say that a person can’t do well or even thrive if the conditions mentioned here for wellness are not met, rather...not being at peak or very high wellness IS applying negative pressure against their thriving.
I intend to flesh out those four elements of winning more & turn them into a proper post. If you’ve read this, any feedback, comments, or suggestions? I will be using the elements of winning as guides when creating my meetup group’s dojo. I did not mention why I think winning is so important as I take winning as a given good, but I suspect pointing at a few reasons why might be helpful for readers so I’ll include that in the post.
In other news, I will be playing a Kenku Artificer Artillerest in an upcoming D&D campaign and am excited for that, looks like a lot of fun :)
Upcoming announcements for Norfolk Rationalists & Houston rationalists should occur tomorrow for at least one announcement, with the rest hopefully produced by midweek at the latest.