Cultivating Cognitive Agility

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We're drowning in information, and starving for wisdom. Pulling from evolutionary biology, cognitive science, philosophy, and practical experience, this talk explores how we can think about learning and wisdom cultivation differently.

I gave a talk at the Greater Colorado Venture Summit about learning, wisdom cultivation, and insight. The original wasn't recorded, so I re-recorded the talk for all of you to enjoy.

References

Items in bold are highly recommended if you want to dig deeper into these ideas.

  1. Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge by E. O. Wilson
  2. Wisdom affinity in the general population by Beate Muschalla
  3. Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective by Kenneth O. Stanley
  4. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn
  5. Thinking in Systems by Donella H. Meadows
  6. Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking by Douglas R Hofstadter and Emmanuel Sander
  7. Analogy as the Core of Cognition by Douglas Hofstadter
  8. Learning In Ill-Structured Domains Series: Cognitive Flexibility Theory by Cedric Chen
  9. Cognitive Flexibility Theory: Advanced Knowledge Acquisition in Ill-Structured Domains by Rand Spiro
  10. Awakening from the Meaning Crisis by John Vervaeke
  11. The Tim Ferriss Show: Professor John Vervaeke — How to Build a Life of Wisdom, Flow, and Contemplation

Additionally, here's some further resources that I didn't directly mention, but would be interesting to anyone curious about this topic:

The tools that I mentioned at the end of the talk — and see more here about my personal tech stack:

The original slides are here. If you attended the event, you're welcome to reach out or connect on Twitter to chat more.

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