Self-awareness – knowing what you believe and why

In my self-awareness posts I write about our brains as seen through the lenses of evolutionary and social psychology, neuroscience, and beyond. Only by understanding ourselves can we improve ourselves. Worldviews are a useful tool here for mapping out our beliefs, and then critiquing them and improving them.

Some specific topics covered are: evolutionary & social psychology, neuroscience, biases, heuristics, clarity, values, history, culture, worldviews, beliefs

Can We Feed the World and Sustain the Planet? – Scientific American

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How aware are we of our food choices and their impact? How are we going to deal with the food issues of the future? What actions can we, as individuals, take to help? Or are the solutions limited to policy changes and technological developments? I just read an interesting article in the November 2011 issue […]

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Human Behavioral Biology – 01 – Introduction

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Introduction to human behavioral biology, thinking in buckets, some additional cautions before getting started, and relevant course information.

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Is Self-knowledge Overrated? – The New Yorker

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A friend pointed out this article from Jonah Lehrer at The New Yorker about Daniel Kahneman’s new book, “Thinking, Fast and Slow” (already pre-ordered for my Kindle!). Some good lines from it: Unlike homo economicus, that imaginary species featured in macroeconomics textbooks, Kahneman and Tversky demonstrated that real people don’t deal with uncertainty by carefully evaluating […]

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Recognizing when you procrastinate

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Many of the methods for defeating procrastination are difficult to use if you don’t recognize when you are procrastinating, both though introspection of your past, and in the moment. This seems to me like an extremely important procrastination meta-skill. For example, maybe I believe the reason I never floss my teeth is because I wrongly perceive […]

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