#ReasonIsFun

Michael Ashcroft (33/100 YouTube videos)

m_ashcroft

This is excellent thread from @reasonisfun on resolving inner conflicts and motivation.I'm 100% here for this. Having to consistently force yourself to do things might be a sign that you

Lulie 🎄

reasonisfun

What Ayn Rand gives people is a surrogate for good boundaries. People who don’t take themselves seriously and have poor boundaries find Ayn Rand, and are like “omg it’s legitimate

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mattgoldenberg

Thread of great questions. What is the contradiction inherent in this? Who can I express love to today, and how can I express it? What's the question you're really trying

Lulie 🎄

reasonisfun

'Self discipline' is a patch for being conflicted about what you want to do.Often, productive people are interpreted as 'having discipline': able to force themselves to do the work even

Lulie 🎄

reasonisfun

How knowledge works: You start with some existing knowledge (models/traditions/genes/memes). Some of that contains problems (two parts contradict). Try a modification to solve it. Criticise to see if the solution

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QiaochuYuan

this has been happening to me too and it's been the top obstacle to me getting anything done for a long time and i uh may have just fixed it

Sarah Constantin

s_r_constantin

My model of "fixing your shit", heavily inspired by @reasonisfun, is that you have to *actually* deal with all your inner conflicts sooner or later, if you want to operate

Jake Orthwein

JakeOrthwein

Trying to Figure Out Where @DavidDeutschOxf's Critical Rationalism and @Meaningness's Meta-rationality Disagree(for the very small niche of people that find this interesting) For starters, where they agree:- We are fallible.

Lulie 🎄

reasonisfun

Critical Rationalism (CR) – An Introduction Table of Contents1-7: Context, Community & History 8-10: WHAT IS IT? 11-22+: Key Concepts Coming soon:- Deutsch's key ideas - Common misconceptions - Crit

Malcolm 🙃cean

Malcolm_Ocean

Most people:1. drink coffee every day2. never drink coffee3. coffee only when sleepy/boredGalaxy brain:4. Use caffeine on days you would already be very focused & engaged, to reach new levels

Lulie 🎄

reasonisfun

I mentioned in this audio that practice is bullshit. Thread https://twitter.com/reasonisfun/status/1265306610085363712 If you draw 1000 pictures you're not going to get a fraction as good as if you studied 1000

Malcolm 🙃cean

Malcolm_Ocean

Matt's talking about coherence therapy here, kind of in relation to addiction/trauma, as I understand it.I want to start by thanking him for being my "someone wrong on the internet"

Rival Voices

nosilverv

This cannot POSSIBLY be the best day for this but as I’ve said over and over I’m not in control. SO, here’s a thread about ART. 1/50 (no, that’s not

Critter

BecomingCritter

Gonna thread this to show some appreciation for ya'll

Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🇺🇸

Conaw

I'm committing now to try and publish 365 propositions between now and Christmas 2019 which I think are interesting and plausibly true. 1) It is more important that a proposition