I'm not yet able to see subtleties like that linkage without prompting. I know it's a fault of mine: I don't search enough for serendipitous connection and undetected patterns that ought to become insights. I know for certain that harms my effectiveness.

Eliezer, it's obvious you're smarter than me. I also have read science that suggests that people who see intelligence tasks as trainable can improve their scores. Implication: smarts is at least partly strategy and/or practice.

So, questions: what strategies do you think you are using, that less smart people seem not to use, and that could be taught. Similarly, what and how do you practice? (I recognize the extended Bayesian Enlightenment series is related to one set of strategies.)

Do you have strategies in this one context of serendipity and insight? Is there a relation to the Bayesian strategies you've already described?