It seems like you have developed techniques for performing two somewhat unrelated tasks:
1). Keeping your mania, and cognitive biases in general, under control.
2). Using altered states of consciousness to greatly enhance your problem-solving capabilities.
I can see some major potential weaknesses in both areas:
1). Do your mental control techniques have general applicability ? That is, do they only work for you, or can anyone use them ? Had anyone else besides yourself tried using them ? If so, have they garnered positive results that are directly attributable to your techniques ?
2). Like many others on this thread, I’m skeptical about the insights you’d received from your altered states of consciousness. Have they yielded any tangible benefits—other than general motivation, that is, which is already pretty useful ?
Hmm, the above paragraph makes me sound kinda like a hateful hater McHateguy, but I’m actually quite interested in what you have to say—and I think that this current article was already quite inspirational. I’d love to read any of the four articles you’d proposed, in any order, but it would be great if you could work some objective evidence into them, just so that my inner skeptic is satisfied.
It seems like you have developed techniques for performing two somewhat unrelated tasks:
1). Keeping your mania, and cognitive biases in general, under control.
2). Using altered states of consciousness to greatly enhance your problem-solving capabilities.
I can see some major potential weaknesses in both areas:
1). Do your mental control techniques have general applicability ? That is, do they only work for you, or can anyone use them ? Had anyone else besides yourself tried using them ? If so, have they garnered positive results that are directly attributable to your techniques ?
2). Like many others on this thread, I’m skeptical about the insights you’d received from your altered states of consciousness. Have they yielded any tangible benefits—other than general motivation, that is, which is already pretty useful ?
Hmm, the above paragraph makes me sound kinda like a hateful hater McHateguy, but I’m actually quite interested in what you have to say—and I think that this current article was already quite inspirational. I’d love to read any of the four articles you’d proposed, in any order, but it would be great if you could work some objective evidence into them, just so that my inner skeptic is satisfied.
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