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For years I denied all self-help books for missing the "how" part of the equation, this is now my main focus. All things considered, even if you have the intentions, the goals, the how to, I feel that most people do not have the consistency of themselves or a clear enough mind free from changing moods to pursue a purpose. [Another major part is not knowing how to listen to or access the Intuition regularly].
For me something like looking at life from a constant meditation on your future self [Alex Harmozi] or Gurdjieff's Self-Remembering or Vigyan Bhairav Tantra: Meditation Technique No. 33 allows this kind of consistent clarity.
Osho [or Watts?] once noted that men die at 50 from heart attacks because they get all the things society asked them to get, the external pressure of society is no longer pushing them, and they are no longer running from themselves, iirc.
Not claiming this is ethical, but the biases can be used on the person to generate the motivation and emotional response
to recognize that they don’t want to suffer from exploitation of the biases
As for the reason it would help the issue, if the person is not susceptible to these, they will not be susceptible to the industries, governments, teachers that exploit these.
They’ll recognize it before falling for it.
As for the difficulty level, it could be made simple. They aren’t complex, they are just unknown
> a lot like how religious or anti-religious people get nervous/agitated if one is to call into question the truth.
You're recognizing the same bias. It's not that there are oversights so much as there are widespread ideas believed to be definitive.
Rather than teaching people the "right ideas," at this point I feel it's critical that people learn how cognitive biases work, namely, authority bias.
On the matter of beliefs, Crony Beliefs is a gem https://meltingasphalt.com/crony-beliefs/