Take a look at Nisbett and Mindware. Briefly, if you have enough concepts you can function better.
And a random though I keep having this year—we’re not trained to anchor ourselves in time, and this might be a good skill to teach young. To think (and obviously plan) in larger and larger slices of time. Most of what we do long term involves an outside commitment, like “I’ll spend 4 years in college”. It’s not like we even _can_ commit internally to “4 years I’ll learn stuff”.
Take a look at Nisbett and Mindware. Briefly, if you have enough concepts you can function better.
And a random though I keep having this year—we’re not trained to anchor ourselves in time, and this might be a good skill to teach young. To think (and obviously plan) in larger and larger slices of time. Most of what we do long term involves an outside commitment, like “I’ll spend 4 years in college”. It’s not like we even _can_ commit internally to “4 years I’ll learn stuff”.