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Building a Mind on Open Questions
Preferring questions that cannot be answered over answers that cannot be questioned is load-bearing for a sound psyche. On intolerance of uncertainty, beliefs welded to the self, Hoffer's engineered certitude, and open questions as the joints a mind moves on.
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Trusting Your Gut Without Fooling Yourself
The first two posts said distrust yourself. This one says trust your gut. They are the same discipline. Kahneman, Klein, Simon, Ericsson, and the two questions that tell a real hunch from ego.
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How to Change Your Mind Without Becoming a Weathervane
Two ways to fail: the weathervane that turns with every gust, and the bunker that never turns. Five moves from Darwin, Popper, Tetlock, Munger, and Feynman for being a compass instead.
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I Reserve the Right to Change My Mind
Fillmore wrote the right to change his mind into a creed, Montaigne into a margin, Lincoln into a war. On principled revision, and the test that separates it from cowardice.
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