Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds by James Clear (8min) "Humans need a reasonably accurate view of the world in order to survive. If your model of reality is wildly different from the actual world, then you struggle to take effective actions each day. However, truth and accuracy are not the only things that matter to the human mind. Humans also seem to have a deep desire to belong." See: Glasp Community Highlights 👀 Share: Tweet Your Progress
Understanding your Circle of Competence: How Warren Buffett Avoids Problems by FS Blog (3min) Understanding your circle of competence helps you avoid problems, identify opportunities for improvement, and learn from others. As Buffett so put it, we do not necessarily need to understand esoteric areas. Far more important is to honestly define what we do know and stick to those areas. Our circle of competence can be widened, but only slowly and over time. See: Glasp Community Highlights 👀 Share: Tweet Your Progress
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Sifting the Essential from the Non-Essential by FS Blog (4min) Einstein’s greatest skill was the ability to sift the essential from the inessential — to grasp simplicity when everyone else was lost in the clutter. The biggest mistake that most of us make is that we try to consume more information without understanding what’s relevant and what’s not. See: Glasp Community Highlights 👀 Share: Tweet Your Progress
Slow-Reading is The New Deep Learning by David Handel, MD (15min) Speed-reading is for skimmers. Slow-reading is for scholars. Research paper after research paper has concluded that as reading speed goes up as a result of effortful speed-reading, comprehension goes down. If you’re reading to learn, you need to engage with the content and associate the new concepts with your existing knowledge. See: Glasp Community Highlights 👀 Share: Tweet Your Progress
The impact of the Pink Elephant Paradox on our emotions and decisions by Dr. Hannah England (7min) The researchers found that trying to suppress a thought “has paradoxical effects as a self-control strategy,” and can lead to obsession or preoccupation despite an individual’s best efforts to ignore the thought. Learning how to manage obsessive or intrusive thoughts can help you to avoid the associated pitfalls of negative emotions, distractibility, and poor decision-making. See: Glasp Community Highlights 👀 Share: Tweet Your Progress
Inversion: The Crucial Thinking Skill Nobody Ever Taught You by James Clear (6min) The way of thinking, in which you consider the opposite of what you want, is known as inversion. It is a rare and crucial skill that nearly all great thinkers use to their advantage and is a powerful thinking tool because it puts a spotlight on errors and roadblocks that are not obvious at first glance. Instead of asking how to do something, ask how to not do it. See: Glasp Community Highlights 👀 Share: Tweet Your Progress
How Elon Musk Learns Faster And Better Than Everyone Else by Michael Simmons (11min) Elon Musk is good at a very specific type of learning that most others aren’t even aware of — learning transfer. Learning transfer is taking what we learn in one context and applying it to another. It can be taking a kernel of what we learn in school or in a book and applying it to the “real world.” It can also be taking what we learn in one industry and applying it to another. See: Glasp Community Highlights 👀 Share: Tweet Your Progress
Continuous Improvement: How It Works and How to Master It by James Clear (4min) Continuous improvement is a dedication to making small changes and improvements every day, with the expectation that those small improvements will add up to something significant. The typical approach to self-improvement is to set a large goal, then try to take big leaps in order to accomplish the goal in as little time as possible. While this may sound good in theory, it often ends in burnout, frustration, and failure. See: Glasp Community Highlights 👀 Share: Tweet Your Progress
