This post has been helpful. I have gathered a few things:

1. look for shoddy thinking and unlearn it - not entirely sure how to do that, but I will be thinking about it for the future.
2. better wrong than vague - be clear and specific enough to get things wrong. - I have started to notice sometimes I express things vaguely enough to "never be wrong" it's happened since hitting lesswrong and now I think its more important than I did before to correct this sooner.
3. reminding me of nate soares' whole-ass-half-ass ideas. - a great idea of "how to use laziness to its optimum position"

so thanks!