I have decided that it would be valuable for me to read books (blog posts, articles, random conversations between smart people who store chatlogs) about introspection, take notes, and try to distill and clarify the information. This could result in me eventually giving up, or in a Luminosity Sequence: Second Edition...
I do not believe it is too uncharitable to read this as saying, more or less, that you will look for various corroborating information unless it turns out to be either too hard or too contrary to what you've already established in the luminosity sequence. In which case, you'll just give up! This is nascent publication bias.
What prompts you to predict that?
Luminosity is, as far as I can tell, a general self-help sequence with less empirical verification than, e.g., connection theory. You've also invested a lot of time and effort into it. Greater scientists have fallen prey to less motivation.
What results could my project turn up that would falsify your prediction?
Minor or major corrections to the sequence. It's highly unlikely to be totally correct as it stands. Alternatively, you could review a large enough fraction of the relevant literature so as to make the existence of contrary evidence unlikely.
What do you mean by a 'systematic literature review'?
I'm still not sure where you're getting your impression. I will not just look for corroborating information, and I don't think I said anything that sounded like that, but the voting indicates that people agree with you, and I don't understand at all. (Or maybe my downvotes are just because I have again failed to come up with a civil-sounding way to express discomfort with an interlocutor's tone? Is there any way to do that at all, or are my choices radio silence v. painstakingly refraining from reacting to the tone for an entire conversation? Someone p...
I have decided that it would be valuable for me to read books (blog posts, articles, random conversations between smart people who store chatlogs) about introspection, take notes, and try to distill and clarify the information. This could result in me eventually giving up, or in a Luminosity Sequence: Second Edition (Now With Literature, Part Of This Complete Breakfast!), or (optimism!) me being able to sort ~90% of people into some number of categories such that their category membership tells me how to help them develop luminosity superpowers in N simple steps with exercises/therapy-ish stuff/etc.
Help me eat luminosity! I need recommendations for stuff to read. This stuff should be:
I read really fast. Don't worry about oversaturating me with recommendations, but please do say a little about why you recommend a thing (even if it's "I haven't read this, but I keep hearing about it, so I guess some people like it") and post recommendations in separate comments so people with information about the item can vote up and down separately. Recommendations for non-written things will be heavily discounted but not outright disqualified.
I would also like a supply of guinea-pigs-in-waiting for if and when I get to the point of trying the sorting or the superpower-giving part of the optimistic end state of the project.
If people want me to, I can document the process of luminosity-eating so there is a template to follow for other subject-eating projects, but I wouldn't do this by default because in general I only do things that someone would care if I didn't do them.