28/05/2019

3 things that you are grateful for:

- For peace

- For this life

- For mouthwash

1 thing that you can do better:

- More appreciation for my life and the people in it

Notes:

In your response lies your freedom and growth

Thinking errors from The art of thinking clearly by Rolf Dobelli:

96. Cherry-picking, selecting and showcasing the most attractive features and hiding the rest ( showing only the brightside)

97. Fallacy of the single cause:

‘When an apple ripens and falls — what makes it fall? Is it that it is attracted to the ground, is it that the stem withers, is it that the sun has dried it up, that is has grown heavier, that the wind shakes it, that the boy standing underneath it wants to eat it? No one thing is the cause.’ — passage from War and Peace, Tolstoy.

98. Intention-to-treat error, the failed projects show up prominently, but in the wrong category

Example: “You’ll find it hard to believe, but speed demons drive more safely than so-called ‘careful’ drivers. Why? Well, consider this: the distance from Miami to West Palm Beach is around 75 miles. Drivers who cover the distance in an hour or less we’ll categorise as ‘reckless drivers’ because they’re travelling at an average of 75 mph or more. All others we put into the group of careful drivers. Which group experiences fewer accidents? Without a doubt, it is the ‘reckless drivers’. They all completed the journey in less than an hour, so could not have been involved in any accidents. This automatically puts all drivers who end up in accidents in the slower drivers’ category.”

99. News Illusion, news is to the mind what sugar is to the body: appetising, easy to digest — and highly destructive in the long run.

News is bad because:

- our brains react disproportionately to different types of information

- is irrelevant

- is a waste of time

EPILOGUE

For thinking more clearly don focus on that but on the bugs of your thinking, see author example:

The Pope asked Michelangelo: ‘Tell me the secret of your genius. How have you created the statue of David, the masterpiece of all masterpieces?’ Michelangelo’s answer: ‘It’s simple. I removed everything that is not David.’

PS: my mind like this example, for obvious reasons:)