17-07-28 How to Be Like Me

1. Consider the pain associated with growth to be the best indicator of success 2. Free yourself to think. Reduce barriers to creativity by stress testing social norms. Find communities where the freedom to think about everything is a prized norm. 3. Instinct to optimize. 4. Read. Early and often, habitually. [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VyUtf6PmrPSkQGwxwOSe-XgBssUmaJ_dT8vrk67CDuM/edit?usp=sharing] 5. Take ideas seriously - that means experiencing them in reality, generalizing them appropriately, propagating them through the rest of the beliefs held. 6. Low emotional response on a number of important axes that tend to be barriers. Enjoyment / entertainment in the face of identity destroying ideas. Absurdly tiny identity / association of self with particular positions or beliefs. 7. Anti-tribal / anti-ideological - skepticism around all sacred beliefs. 8. Huge level up from conscious intellectual relationships and search for the strongest people I could find. On the social graph, take the highest quality people you know and ask them who the highest quality people they know are. Meet and repeat. 9. Instinct to abstract and generalize. 10. Whenever you face a problem, set a 10 minute timer and generate 10 solutions to it. 11. Free writing, daily. For self awareness, for thinking on paper instead of in your head. 12. Build models, guarantee that all of your thought builds on itself.

Chris - Well Jeremy has these values, and he looked at the word moment

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