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Lulie
@reasonisfun
Epistemology applied to everything. 💫 Host of Reason Is Fun podcast w/ @DavidDeutschOxf 🎙️ Taking critical rationalism into life – how to improve both.
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    Jan 1, 2022
    I tweet about: 💭 philosophy (epistemology, reason) 🧠 psychology, mental blocks 🎭 emotion, inexplicit knowledge, phenomenology 👩‍🍼 culture, memetics, tradition (relationships, parenting, scientific research) 🗽 non-coercion (applied to learning & productivity) Best threads — 1/
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    Oct 4, 2018
    'Self discipline' is a patch for being conflicted about what you want to do. Often, productive people are interpreted as 'having discipline': able to force themselves to do the work even when it's unpleasant. But creative productivity only ever works in *spite* of that.
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    Apr 25, 2023
    On naval gazing -- We weren't meant to constantly be thinking about our internal state. Emotions are meant to move through us and help guide our actions, while our mind is freed up to think about the world outside.
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    Oct 4, 2018
    'Self discipline' is a patch for being conflicted about what you want to do. Often, productive people are interpreted as 'having discipline': able to force themselves to do the work even when it's unpleasant. But creative productivity only ever works in *spite* of that.
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    Jan 12, 2022
    How learning works
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    Dec 30, 2023
    If someone is depressed or anxious (and especially if exercise, socialising and SSRIs don’t work), there is an active thinking process happening that is renewing the stress.
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    Jan 17, 2022
    Optimism is not the glass half-full. It’s the tap.
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    Sep 4, 2021
    🔑 KEY CONCEPTS: DAVID DEUTSCH 🔑 ✨Table of Contents✨ 1. Explanation 2. Hard-to-vary (Good Explanations) 3-4. Universality 5. Optimism 6. Creativity 7. Prophecy 8. Truth 9. Memes 10. Hangups 11. Inexplicit Knowledge 12. Institutions 13. Morality 14. Common Preferences 15. Fun
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    Aug 25, 2020
    Critical Rationalism (CR) – An Introduction 🧵 ✨Table of Contents✨ 1-7: Context, Community & History 🗺🕰 8-10: WHAT IS IT? ℹ️ 11-22+: Key Concepts 🔑 Coming soon: - Deutsch's key ideas 🔑 - Common misconceptions 🙈 - Crit rats VS bay rats VS post-rats VS meta-rats 🐀🐁 0/
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    Dec 10, 2023
    There is a skill of how to access information from your emotions. Most people don’t know how. They literally cannot read their feelings, in the same way that illiterates cannot read words. Intellectuals are often illiterate *plus* deny it’s possible to learn to read. 1/
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    Oct 23, 2023
    A lot of people think introspection is unusually error-prone, subject to confirmation bias and making up stories, with no way of being verified or refuted. This is false—if you have the right instruments. 1/
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    Mar 15, 2024
    There’s this thing I discovered where people react to 1yo babies offering objects with an exaggerated, “THANK you! Thank you!” as they take the object and then pass it back to the baby. What’s the purpose of this?
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    Nov 4, 2023
    One of the biggest sources of discontent is a mental motion that many do continually: Planning what decision you will make ahead of when the time comes to make the decision.
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    Oct 4, 2018
    Replying to @reasonisfun
    "Discipline is remembering what you want." When that works, it's not 'discipline'; it's getting less conflicted.
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    Apr 8, 2025
    Two failure modes that everyone* falls into: 1. Autopilot: turning off, blind implementing. 2. Over-engineering: planning, trying, getting lost in overthinking. Surprisingly, they both boil down to the same mistake! [* perhaps except enlightened monks..?]
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    Oct 4, 2018
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    The real answer to productivity and motivation is to resolve the conflicts you have. Once unconflicted about what to do, even hard work is effortless, motivation-wise. (And fun. #ReasonIsFun) It becomes effortful to *not* do it. It pulls you in and demands you keep working.
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    Sep 14, 2021
    You’re not burnt out because of capitalism you’re burnt out because you only know external motivation and you never learned how to set boundaries