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Sloww Sunday Newsletter 092 (Jan 16, 2022) — Multidisciplinary Learning, Human Misjudgment, Enlightened Self-Interest, & More
Happy Sunday!
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🌀 Sloww Stuff
The Psychology of Human Misjudgment was originally a speech delivered by Charlie Munger at Harvard in 1995. A decade later in 2005, Munger revised and updated the transcript for the book Poor Charlie’s Almanack. This post is a summary of all 25 psychological tendencies from the revised and updated version.
“The curious are provided with much fun and wisdom long after formal education has ended.” — Charlie Munger
Just updated with two new sources! I’ve ventured deep into this subject lately. If you truly want to be an integrated, interdisciplinary thinker, you can’t just focus on adding concepts to your mind that make your thinking better (aiming to be “more right”). You must also focus on reducing errors in your thinking (aiming to be “less wrong”). This Premium post links to a Google Sheet with 450+ cognitive concepts I’ve curated and organized from a variety of sources (with more on the way).
🧠 Modern Knowledge
The Latticework: Big Ideas from the Big Disciplines
LTCWRK
The Latticework is a multidisciplinary learning roadmap that curates, organizes, and interconnects valuable ideas—built from the ground up to focus on timeless and universal principles.
The link above takes you to a 150-page PDF compilation of all of The Latticework’s 1-Pagers to date. It includes an overview of the top big ideas from: Worldly Wisdom, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Statistics & Probabilities, Engineering, Science & Experimenting, Technology & Computer Science, Biology & Nature, Health & Nutrition, Psychology, Business & Investing, and Economics.
Pair with: 🔒 All 100+ of The Latticework’s big ideas from this PDF have been added to the Mental Mastery Cheatsheet.
“The power of a proper mental framework is that it is descriptive, predictive, and helps expose blind spots – and all mistakes come from blind spots. In order to build this proper mental framework or ‘latticework,’ it must be composed of time-tested and robust principles – what we call ‘the big ideas from the big disciplines.'”
🧘♀️ Timeless Wisdom
Where is this Spiritual Path Going?
5 mins | YouTube
Spiritual teacher Rupert Spira shares more words of wisdom. Have you ever thought, “Where is my spiritual path going?” As you’ll see, “spiritual growth” is a bit of a misnomer.
Highlights:
- “The whole idea that it’s ‘going somewhere’ is itself an expression of the limitations of our mind.”
- “What happens to the question of ‘where it’s all going’ in between two thoughts? It doesn’t make sense.”
- “This is all going in the direction of the understanding that what we are expecting to happen is already happening. It’s already present. We’re not going towards it.”
Pair with: “Being Myself” by Rupert Spira (Book Summary + 🔒 How to Apply It)
“We’re going towards the understanding that what we are going towards is already present … Gradually, in most cases, our expectation comes to an end in this understanding. It’s not that we discover what we are expecting, it’s that our expectation comes to an end.” — Rupert Spira
🤯 Mind Expanding
All of Prehistory on a Log Scale
Twitter
You may also enjoy:
- Prehistory on a log scale, but annotated with brain growth.
- Prehistory on a log scale, but extended to today.
- Not to scale, but human evolution from apes to AI.
💡 New Learning
Enlightened Self-Interest
Wikipedia
- Persons who act to further the interests of others (or the interests of the group or groups to which they belong), ultimately serve their own self-interest.
- Simply expressed: “do well by doing good.”
💭 Deep Thought
It’s not possible to learn everything about everything.
The wise learner understands trade-offs, prioritizes accordingly, learns fundamentals, and connects knowledge.
“If you understand a general principle, you don’t need to see every one of its illustrations.” — Henry David Thoreau
💬 Wise Words
It is not the amount of knowledge that makes a brain. It is not even the distribution of knowledge. It is the interconnectedness.
— Howard Bloom
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Have a wise week!
Kyle Kowalski
Synthesizer & Solopreneur, Sloww
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