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Wisdom & Games or Skill = Wisdom | A counterintuitive approach using games
#Seek wisdom I've got to do quite much with (Skillbased-) games and the science behind games... Both are really good ways to learn and apply this example of Andrew Kirby. For example in (Skillbased-) games it is often the case that people with a high level of skill can freely transfer between different games of the same type and even if they haven't played for a year or so they are still able to easily (compared to new people) get back to the top. This is also something I know from personal experience and there is a perfectly fitting quote for that: “You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer see, one can at least still know” - Rene Daumal This quote can be viewed from many perspectives but the way I have seen it is that the person who already got to the top (is highly skilled, has already achieved something great, ...) already went through all the struggles of climbing the mountain and thus has already failed a certain number of times and applied this knowledge through failure to the rest of the way. To get back to the initial example: The person gained Wisdom through the experiences the person earned on the way up the first times (eg. the failures, struggles, traps, etc.) which lead to the creation of the map that @Pablo Micheletti mentioned in his post. It basically is the skill (we can also call it wisdom) to make the correct decisions based on previously accumulated Information (to simplify: left way is thorny, straight way has multiple traps, right path is dark but leads to the goal, or something like that, just imagine the paths of your own lives here^^)
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what I got from simmering it was that Wisdom and Skill are more about pattern recognition than they are about chronological memory, and if you're able to actively create patterns by imagining them, that prompts Wisdom. Thanks for that
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@Vincent Rochler I am, like Kanye West defined Rick Rubin, "a reducer, not a producer". Not as good at exploring every conceptual avenue and steering people towards understanding as I am in condensing ideas. Both skills are complementary, I think.
You can't pronounce my name
#Synthesizing Intro I love content that is useful and/or analytical. My path of least resistance, unfortunately, have steered me too heavily towards digestible content, and that bothers me because I'd like to be the one creating my own interpretations. I've put below some of the videos and channels I love. I'm currently trying to figure out the optimal way of handling multiple tasks, how that relates to stress in the brain. Richard Haier's Efficiency Hypothesis, that measures of brain efficiency explain intelligence, is also on my radar, and my intuition tells me this might tie up with a lot of other things in the future. Honestly, this is me procrastinating on learning to program. P.S.: fun fact, my profile picture is a painting of Emilio Villari, an itaian physicist, that I got as the highest confidence lookalike in this Google Arts & Culture's selfie feature. I hate having an old picture of me, an I hate updating it xD
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@Vincent Rochler multitasking and task switching specifically; I'm already really good at focusing and filtering sensory stimuli (and I also use my.brain.fm, which helps a lot), but I'm having a hard time at balancing multiple goals and not have my mind wanting to jump to the highest short-term payoff at any time. What I got so far is this study that suggest that hard-scheduling breeds higher performance than not having constraints. I'm I'll ultimately land on Cal Newport's Deep Work. P.S.: Also, great opportunity to get to know the socialist sci-hub The study: https://sci-hub.se/10.1007/s10683-012-9318-8 that also cites this psychology review on task switching: https://sci-hub.se/10.1016/S1364-6613(03)00028-700028-7)
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@Corey Bennett Boardman hahaha thx
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Trying to live a more balanced life
#Synthesizing Intro Hi, I'm Heather from Bristol, UK. A self-development junkie, also a night owl. I love content that gives tips and practical advice on how to live your best life. 'Your best life' can vary from person to person but to me it means a life of freedom, truth, purpose, and happiness. The problem I'm currently working on is trying to live a more balanced life where I can growth and thrive soulfully i.e. anti-hustle culture.
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I love how you compressed your definition for self-actualization, it's inspired and inspiring. I am certain you'll appreciate this video, and some other ones, from What I've Learned:
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João Correia
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I'm a cool nerd. Too suave for the nerds; too smart for the cool kids club. I'm interested in big-picture perspective. Currently learning to program.

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