Think More Clearly

Your brain isn’t a truth-seeking machine. It’s a survival machine that happens to think - and it comes with shortcuts, biases, and blind spots that made sense on the savanna but cause problems today.

This path helps you see those bugs and work around them.

Time commitment: ~5-6 hours total, but the awareness lasts forever.

The Path

Thinking Clearly

Part 0: Why Your Brain Lies to You The evolutionary reasons your brain takes shortcuts. Understanding the problem before fixing it.

Part 1: Testing Your Assumptions You believe things without evidence. Everyone does. Here’s how to notice and test your assumptions.

Part 2: Beyond Either/Or Most choices aren’t binary. Learn to see the options you’re missing.

Part 3: Decisions Under Emotion Anger, fear, and excitement distort your thinking. How to recognize it and compensate.

Part 4: Seeking Disconfirmation Your brain looks for evidence it’s right. Train it to look for evidence it’s wrong.

Part 5: Changing Your Mind Updating your beliefs when evidence demands it. The underrated skill of being wrong gracefully.

What You’ll Have

After completing this path:

• Awareness of common cognitive biases
• Tools for testing your own assumptions
• Better decision-making under uncertainty
• Ability to change your mind without ego damage
• Less certainty, more accuracy

The Key Insight

You can’t eliminate biases - they’re built into your hardware. But you can learn to notice them in the moment, pause, and choose differently.

Awareness is the first step. This path builds that awareness.

A Note on Humility

This path isn’t about becoming perfectly rational. That’s impossible. It’s about being a little less wrong, a little more often.

The person who thinks they have no biases has the biggest bias of all. The goal is noticing, not perfection.