Thanks for reading, Nick! This is a really great point, and I completely agree. It's so unfortunate that there is so little pedagogical instruction / structure around how to improve these sorts of meta-cognitive skills. Achieving self-honesty is such an important skill to hone for life in general, and like you, I think I've spent a lot o…
Thanks for reading, Nick! This is a really great point, and I completely agree. It's so unfortunate that there is so little pedagogical instruction / structure around how to improve these sorts of meta-cognitive skills. Achieving self-honesty is such an important skill to hone for life in general, and like you, I think I've spent a lot of my life trying to whittle away the patterns that get in the way and learn how to slowly cultivate it, but I don't think this sort of thing needs to be so random walk-y.
Distance is a really important factor. And I imagine there are others that can build into a sort of guidebook for how to do it. Anyways, rambling a bit. Would love to talk more about this some time (also we should catch up)
Thanks for reading, Nick! This is a really great point, and I completely agree. It's so unfortunate that there is so little pedagogical instruction / structure around how to improve these sorts of meta-cognitive skills. Achieving self-honesty is such an important skill to hone for life in general, and like you, I think I've spent a lot of my life trying to whittle away the patterns that get in the way and learn how to slowly cultivate it, but I don't think this sort of thing needs to be so random walk-y.
Distance is a really important factor. And I imagine there are others that can build into a sort of guidebook for how to do it. Anyways, rambling a bit. Would love to talk more about this some time (also we should catch up)