Unavoidable Clarity. From pursuing self-defined life goals. From pursuing self-defined life goals. Uncapped Wealth. From unlimited prioritised knowledge growth. From unlimited prioritised knowledge growth.
Both are determined by your Misconcepts.
Misconcepts are fallible mental models.
Higher quality misconcepts contain fewer mistakes.
These can be reduced through conjecture and criticism.
Your internal experience is from Misconcepts.
Your brain is in a dark vault.
It only receives nerve impulses.
Misconcepts interprets them.
Your external results are from Misconcepts.
External compounding comes from actions.
Actions from decisions.
Decisions from Misconcepts.
High quality Misconcepts matter.
Internal experience
External results
The only two things you can do.
Improve your Misconcepts or implement them.
So why not remove every mistake from every misconcept?
Because of finite life resources.
Over-refining one Misconcept comes at the cost of leaving another unrefined, or failing to implement one already fit-for-purpose.
Finite life resources means opportunity cost exist and prioritisation is necessary.
So where should you start?
With the four high-level misconcepts invoked in every single decision. Making these fit-for-purpose yields the highest ROI on your finite life resources.
Fallible mental models of the world. They contain mistakes and can be improved through conjecture and criticism. The closer they reflect reality, the better your internal experience and external results.
A conjectured desired state that you choose to pursue. Arbitrary because there is no externally prescribed meaning or purpose that dictates what your goals should be. You can freely conjecture, criticise, and iterate on your life goals.
Finite life resources you use to improve your misconcepts, or to implement them. Includes primary life resources (time, mental resource, physical resource) and secondary life resources (financial resource, misconcepts set, social capital).
The lifetime value of the next best alternative foregone when expending life resources. Since life resources are finite, opportunity cost is present in every decision you make, whether acknowledged or not.
Micro Misconcepts
One misconcept iterated, every Friday.
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