Morendil comments on Tips and Tricks for Answering Hard Questions - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Morendil 18 January 2010 07:10:13AM *  4 points [-]

Hoard knowledge for its own sake

Related to "explore multiple approaches" and cognitive diversity; don't let all your learning efforts be focused on a single question, for in all likelihood your hard question is going to require insights from surprising directions. Cultivate the childish pleasures of pure curiosity.

Comment author: MichaelGR 18 January 2010 08:53:04AM 1 point [-]
Comment author: Morendil 18 January 2010 12:50:04PM 1 point [-]

The eleventh is closer to what I meant.