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Lines of Retreat and Incomplete Maps (with Anna Salamon)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

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The Importance of Leveraging Your Mind in Service of a Goal

I think it's really interesting that you're very interested in being rational in the important ways. But unlike many people who are trying to bootstrap themselves there using like their analytical system all the time, you're trying to leverage all of your mind in service of that goal. The point is not to leverage them, but the point is that they're actually really useful. I mean, it reminds me of these memorization techniques where you can kind of hijack your visual mind in order to remember things that are not visual. By for example, if you want to visualize a deck of memorize a deck of cards, you can assign a like a visual image to each of the numbers and suits

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