Barry_Cotter comments on The Zeroth Skillset - Less Wrong

48 Post author: katydee 30 January 2013 12:46PM

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Comment author: Cthulhoo 30 January 2013 01:01:48PM *  4 points [-]

The topic looks promising. This post already achieved a result: it made me realized that SA is quite likely improvable trough training, and not some sort of magical skill someone is born with (see Sherlock Holmes and pretty much every detective in every detective story). May seem obvious in retrospect, but reading these few lines made me aware of this chached belief of mine. I'm looking forward to reading more about it.

Comment author: Barry_Cotter 30 January 2013 01:55:19PM 8 points [-]

Mindfulness meditation is situational awareness improving. Once you know what being mindful is, try and engage in it when you are doing things, walking, being. The more you do it, and the more often the closer it will come to being automatic, and the faster.

If you do this you also need to practice acting fast on information fast. See and act as close to instantaneously as possible. Easier said than done.

Comment author: Cthulhoo 30 January 2013 02:14:17PM 1 point [-]

Mindfulness meditation is situational awareness improving. Once you know what being mindful is, try and engage in it when you are doing things, walking, being. The more you do it, and the more often the closer it will come to being automatic, and the faster.

I briefly tried to google "mindfulness meditation" and this wiki page popped up. Please forgive my ignorance, is this what you meant? It does indeed look quite promising.

Comment author: Kingoftheinternet 30 January 2013 03:30:33PM 3 points [-]
Comment author: Cthulhoo 30 January 2013 03:47:38PM 0 points [-]

I see the two are indeed related, but thank you for pointing me in the right direction (and in general for letting me know of something I definitely wasn't aware of).