Today I was late coming home, and realized that my aversion to asking people for reasonable things was preventing me from acquiring useful information about the fastest route home. So I went up and asked the person in the metro station for help, and I got it, finding out that my original plan depended on a bus that stopped running much earlier than I expected on Sundays.
Rejection Therapy FTW!
Basically, to the extent that there are useful things that other people do habitually, and are fairly simple for me to do, I can benefit from learning rationality.
And that's a lower bound.
If you are already an atheist that does not believe in ghosts, what can you learn from rationality? I'd love to be wrong about lots of things but my problem is, I think I'm right.
As far as I can tell, none of this reflective thinking has lead to deeper understanding of consciousness. (A subject I wish I wasn't so interested in, because its study seems so futile).
If you feel like it, please tell me about any particular instances where actively working on your own thought processes has lead you to realize you were wrong about something (other than blatantly false things like those I mentioned above) or if the same program lead to any new understanding of consciousness.