I’m an eccentric existentialist philosopher and education mindset user, specializing in applied metacognition. I’ve devoted most of my waking time to studying and addressing problems of the mind, influenced in large part by the aspiring rationality movement.
Right now I am determined to prove that Earth can do better than the status quo, that there is a way to unlock the vast collective human potential that is currently stuck in ignorance and pointless conflict.
Over the past decade or so, I’ve compiled a toolbox of foundational concepts to help people express in the simplest possible terms what matters most, so they can understand each others’ values and frame situations constructively. Thus empowered with a starting point for effective collaboration, we can build a world we can all be proud of.
Best regards,
Extradimensional Cephalopod a.k.a. ExCeph, a.k.a. XF, a.k.a. “a handsome, brooding Cthulhu” (website: https://wordpress.com/view/ginnungagapfoundation.wordpress.com)
This seems like a good analysis of how a person can use what I call the mindsets of reputation and clarification.
Reputation mindset combines the mindsets of strategy and empathy, and it deals with fortifying impressions. It can help one to be aware of emotional associations that others may have for things one may be planning to say or do. That way one can avoid unintended associations where possible, or preemptively build up positive emotional associations to counteract negative ones that can’t be avoided, such as by demonstrating one understands and supports someone’s values before criticizing the methods they use to pursue those values.
Clarification mindset combines strategy mindset and semantics mindset, and it deals with explicit information. It helps people provide context and key details to circumvent unintended interpretations of labels and rules, or at least the most likely misinterpretations in a particular context.
(Reputation and clarification make up the strategy side of presentation mindset. Presentation deals with ambiguity in general, and the strategy side handles robust communication.)
These are powerful tools, and it’s helpful to have characterizations of them and examples of use cases. Nicely done!