Tamir's main prescription: curiosity is the 'compound interest' of the mind. The right kind isn't scattered novelty-seeking. It's relentless, uncomfortable curiosity about where you're wrong, about your own convictions, and about other people's.
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Curiosity. That's how you get compounding interest for your brain, and how to fix your operating system is curiosity.
It's easy to be curious when things are easy. It's difficult to be curious about the things that make us uncomfortable.
The longer you've committed and the longer you've made a decision, the more difficult it is to put it under scrutiny. It's painful.
To have curiosity is the superpower of the current paradigm that we're in.
- Real curiosity is not distraction
Being drawn to shiny things like a Bahamas reel or an attractive person is the easy, scattered kind of curiosity. The kind that compounds is relentless curiosity about the uncomfortable…
- Sunk commitment resists scrutiny
The longer you've belonged to a religion, team, company or mission, the more it hurts to question it, because doubt forces you to ask what you've done with all those years.
- Turn curiosity on your convictions
Point curiosity, deliberately and relentlessly, at where you might be wrong, at your own convictions and at other people's. Examine each part of your life and past decisions instead of…