Re:Ideas That Changed My Life
by dahart on Sunday June 07, 2020 @02:36PM
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> My concern is that people are going to go around collecting mental models and they’re going to use them to justify their stupid decisions.
If I look beyond blog posts about how to think, your sentence seems like an accurate description of human behavior. Isn't this what has always happened, haven't people always used mental models they've collected to justify stupid decisions?
I'd be curious to hear more about the alternatives, or how and where to find balance. And I mean this seriously and expect it's a hard-to-possibly-unanswerable question. We have a limited ability and time to construct our own mental models about everything, and we are exposed to other's mental models at all times through communication. It's not possible to be completely independent about ideas. It's only possible to build on, practice, and prove out maybe a few ideas that came from others during a lifetime.
"Does it really work?" I think is a great and essential question, and for many of these items in the list, the answer has to be yes for someone in some context. Maybe the question is when do they work, and will they work for me?
Re:Ideas That Changed My Life
by deegles on Sunday June 07, 2020 @02:37PM
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Reminds me of one of my favorite quotes:
“So convenient a thing to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.” - Ben Franklin
If I look beyond blog posts about how to think, your sentence seems like an accurate description of human behavior. Isn't this what has always happened, haven't people always used mental models they've collected to justify stupid decisions?
I'd be curious to hear more about the alternatives, or how and where to find balance. And I mean this seriously and expect it's a hard-to-possibly-unanswerable question. We have a limited ability and time to construct our own mental models about everything, and we are exposed to other's mental models at all times through communication. It's not possible to be completely independent about ideas. It's only possible to build on, practice, and prove out maybe a few ideas that came from others during a lifetime.
"Does it really work?" I think is a great and essential question, and for many of these items in the list, the answer has to be yes for someone in some context. Maybe the question is when do they work, and will they work for me?