Superintelligence

How Construal Level Theory Will Make You Learn Faster

And how to prioritize to speed up your learning

By Gregg Henriques at English Wikipedia — Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons by Premeditated Chaos using CommonsHelper., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=18377354

Overview

1. Analogy: Canonical nucleobases
2. Construal level theory and prioritization
3. Organizing construals from high to low + top-down and bottom-up approach
4. Striving to be in a local/global maximum
5. How I personally organize the construals
6. Tree analogy
7. Measuring the level of construals: 5 primary dimensions
8. Summary

Analogy: Canonical nucleobases

There are 5 primary (or canonical) nucleobases:

1. Adenine (A)
2. Cytosine (C)
3. Guanine (G)
4. Thymine (T)
5. Uracil (U) (this one rarely occurs in DNA and doesn’t in humans)

Yet out of 4 (excluding uracil) elements complicated things like humans get created.

I have personally used this analogy a lot to remind myself how I can learn way faster by starting with the general and basic knowledge blocks before going into the details.