If for many years you practice the techniques and submit yourself to strict constraints, it may be that you will glimpse the center. Then you will see how all techniques are one technique, and you will move correctly without feeling constrained. Musashi wrote: “When you appreciate the power of nature, knowing the rhythm of any situation, you will be able to hit the enemy naturally and strike naturally. All this is the Way of the Void.”
There is this saying about the game of go, which states that as a beginer, all you see are stones. As an intermediate, all you see are tactics, shapes with specific names, etc. And as an expert, all you see are just stones again. I think the sentiment is the same.
There is this saying about the game of go, which states that as a beginer, all you see are stones. As an intermediate, all you see are tactics, shapes with specific names, etc. And as an expert, all you see are just stones again.
From what I understand of the neuropsychology and expertise research this saying is terribly misleading. The structural changes to relevant areas of memory and the observations of which aspects of pattern recognition are improved the perception of higher level abstractions rather than low level features is rather inherent to th...
In an effort to internalise the Twelve Virtues of Rationality, I created an Anki deck. It's already been done, so the reason I'm posting is to share a condensed version of the article (created as a side effect of my making the deck).
Hopefully it will make it easier to quickly refresh the concepts if you've already read the article.
If you're not using spaced repetition, you should. Don't believe me? Try reading Gwern's thorough review of the topic.
Then download the “Twelve Virtues of Rationality” deck.
The first virtue is curiosity.
The second virtue is relinquishment.
The third virtue is lightness.
The fourth virtue is evenness.
The fifth virtue is argument.
The sixth virtue is empiricism.
The seventh virtue is simplicity.
The eighth virtue is humility.
The ninth virtue is perfectionism.
The tenth virtue is precision.
The eleventh virtue is scholarship.
Before these eleven virtues is a virtue which is nameless.