Topics/Pillar I

Clear thinking

Clearer reasoning under uncertainty.

Most bad decisions are not made by people who lack information. They are made by people who had the information and reasoned over it badly, anchoring on the vivid case, ignoring the base rate, stopping at the first consequence. These lectures are about the mechanics of that failure and the habits that interrupt it.

4 lectures on clear thinking

The Space Between Stimulus and Response

The single most valuable skill a person can develop is the deliberate widening of the gap between what happens to them and what they do about it, observation held long enough to make the response a choice rather than a reflex.

17 min

The Unreadable Man

Restraint is not coldness or repression; it is the refusal to broadcast your internal state to people who have not earned it, and that refusal is one of the few durable forms of leverage available to an ordinary person.

17 min

The Quiet Discipline of Reading

Deep, sustained reading is the cheapest and most powerful way to rebuild the machinery of your own mind, and the modern decline of it is not a moral failing but an environmental one that can be reversed deliberately.

21 min

Anger, Decoded

Anger is information about a boundary or a thwarted value, not an instruction to be obeyed, and learning to read the signal while refusing the command is the difference between a person who is used by his anger and one who uses it.

17 min

In the workshop

Related subjects

Emotional regulation Self-discipline Strategy and leverage Influence and social skill Strength Athleticism