Sloww Stage 3: How do I master the mind?

This is post 3 of 4 in the series. You can jump to the other three posts below:

• Sloww Stage 1: How do I design a lighter life?

• Sloww Stage 2: How do I find higher purpose?

• Sloww Stage 4: How do I embody wisdom?

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Stage 3 Contents: Click a link here to jump to a section below

• An Overview of Stage 3
• Posts on Polarity & Systems Thinking
• Posts on the Brain, Cognitive Biases, & Mental Models
• Posts on Human Development & Meta-Crisis

Sloww Stage 3: How do I master the mind?

An Overview of Stage 3

Stage 3 Key Question:

• “How do I master the mind?” 

Stage 3 Student Focus:

• Sensemakers: developing mental wealth and memetic immunity.

Stage 3 Description: 

• Along with the meaning crisis, humans (individually) and humanity (collectively) also seem to be in the midst of a sensemaking crisis in the information era—our knowledge isn’t keeping pace with our technological advancement.

Important Note: Lighter living (stage 1) and life purpose (stage 2) are transcended and included in stage 3.

Stage 3 Posts (Full List)

You can see my own personal progression in stage 3 by skimming a summary of posts 201-300.

Note: Links with a lock icon (🔒) go to a Premium post.

Posts on Polarity & Systems Thinking

Polarity Thinking:

• Polarity Thinking 101: An Introduction to the Power of Polarities (+ Visuals)
• A Modern Dose of Timeless Perspective: “How to Live” by Derek Sivers (Book Summary) + 🔒 Premium Summary

Systems Thinking:

• Systems Thinking & Understanding how Everything Connects: “Thinking in Systems” by Donella Meadows (Book Summary)
• The Five Whys (or 5 Whys): A Root Cause Analysis for Better Problem Solving

Humanity as a System:

• 50+ Deep Perspectives on Humanity’s Underlying & Ultimate Challenge (Hint: Ourselves)
• An Intro to Effective Altruism & How to Do the Most Good in Your Life
• “Call me Trim Tab”: Buckminster Fuller & The Impact of an Individual on Society
• 35 Human Learnings from “The Lessons of History” by Will & Ariel Durant (Book Summary) + 🔒 Premium Summary
• 50 Profound Quotes & 5 Deep Questions from “The Lessons of History”

Earth as a System:

• What is Spaceship Earth? & Why It’s Time Humanity Gets “On Board”
• What is the Earth Overview Effect that Inspires Astronauts?
• Slow Down & Set Perspective with Carl Sagan’s “Pale Blue Dot”
• Dr. Bronner’s Soap & Moral ABCs (Product Label Summary)

Posts on the Brain, Cognitive Biases, & Mental Models

Best of the Best:

• Introducing “Mini Mind”: 365 Daily Emails of Bite-Size Brain Food
• 🔒 The Mental Mastery Cheatsheet: 500+ Cognitive Concepts Curated (Biases, Fallacies, Effects, Illusions, Heuristics, Mental Models, & More)
• 🔒 Stream of Consciousness: What is Going On?
• 🔒 Stream of Consciousness: Is this the Strangest Thing in Life?

The Brain:

• Left Brain & Right Brain: 20 Brain Hemisphere Differences from “The Master and His Emissary” (+ Infographic)
• The Four Characters of Your Mind: “Whole Brain Living” by Jill Bolte Taylor (Book Summary)
• 🔒 Stream of Consciousness: Is Free Thinking Even Possible?

Cognitive Biases:

• 25 Cognitive Biases to Master for Better Thinking (+ Infographic Cheatsheet)
• 3 Profound Life Lessons from “This is Water” by David Foster Wallace + 🔒 Premium Summary
• 25 Cognitive Concepts from “The Art of Thinking Clearly” by Rolf Dobelli (Book Summary) + 🔒 Premium Summary
• 25 Psychological Tendencies from “The Psychology of Human Misjudgment” by Charlie Munger (Speech Summary)
• The Wit & Wisdom of Charlie Munger: “Poor Charlie’s Almanack” (Book Summary)
• Darwin, Munger, & More: “Seeking Wisdom” by Peter Bevelin (Book Summary)

Mental Models:

• 25 Mental Models to Master the Art of Thinking (+ Infographic Cheatsheet)
• An Intro to General Thinking Concepts: “The Great Mental Models Volume 1” by Farnam Street (Book Summary)
• 100+ Mental Models from “Super Thinking” by Gabriel Weinberg & Lauren McCann (Book Summary) + 🔒 Premium Summary

Everything Else:

• Truthful Takeaways from “Lying” by Sam Harris (Book Summary)
• 7 Intellectual YouTube Lecture Series to Pursue Lifelong Learning Online for Free
• The Rise of Wise Podcasting: 10 Intellectual Podcasts to Think Deeply, Boost Knowledge, & Live Better

Posts on Human Development & Meta-Crisis

Abraham Maslow:

• Go Beyond the Hierarchy of Needs in Maslow’s “The Farther Reaches of Human Nature” (Book Summary)
• Why we Need to Evolve Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs from a Pyramid to a Sailboat Metaphor
• Maslow’s Holarchy of Needs: Should the Hierarchy of Needs Pyramid be Redesigned?

Integral Theory, Ego Development Theory, & More:

• The Origin of Integral Theory: “A Brief History of Everything” by Ken Wilber (Book Summary)
• 20 Tenets of Integral Theory: An Intro to the Philosophical Principles of Ken Wilber
• An Intro to Integral Theory: “A Theory of Everything” by Ken Wilber (Book Summary)
• An Introduction to Integral Theory: “The Integral Vision” by Ken Wilber (Book Summary)
• 🔒 Stream of Consciousness: How Many Perspectives Can You Take?
• An Introduction to “Ego Development Theory” by Susanne Cook-Greuter (EDT Summary)
• Humanity is Stuck in Development: Civilization’s Critical Evolution to the “Watershed Stage” in Ego Development Theory
• 🔒 Behind the Scenes: My Ego Development Theory Self-Assessment
• 🔒 Behind the Scenes: How my Personal Development Journey maps to Ego Development Theory (Sloww Stages vs EDT Stages)
• What is Spiritual Intelligence? The Twenty-One Skills of “SQ21” by Cindy Wigglesworth (Book Summary)

The Meta-Crisis:

• A Crisis of Crises: What is the Meta-Crisis? (+ Infographics)
• Introducing the “Meta-Crisis Meta-Resource”: A Digital Directory of all People & Projects in the Wisdom Web
• The Consilience Project 101: An Introduction to the Catalyzing of a Cultural Renaissance + 🔒 Premium Synthesis
• 35+ Deep Daniel Schmachtenberger Quotes on Civilization Design, Game Theory, Sense-Making, Sovereignty, & More + 🔒 Premium Synthesis
• 8 Profound Podcasts Introducing the Meaning Crisis, Sensemaking, & Game B

You May Also Enjoy:

• What is Sloww?

• Sloww Stage 1: How do I design a lighter life?

• Sloww Stage 2: How do I find higher purpose?

• Sloww Stage 4: How do I embody wisdom?