You can frequently make your life better by paying attention to what you're doing, looking for possible improvements, trying your ideas, and observing whether the improvements happen.

There is no magic.
I am not in a story.
Words are detachable handles.

I run on hardware that was optimized by millions of years of evolution to do the sort of things my ancestors did tens of thousands of years ago, not the sort of things I do now.

1. People can change (e.g. update on beliefs, self-improve).
2. How to choose your actions - think about your goals, think what steps achieve them in the best way, act on those steps.
3. There is such a thing as objective truth.

Amazing how the basic pillars of rationality are things other people so often don't agree with, even though they seem so dead obvious to me.

This is a fun exercise. The list could be a lot longer than I originally expected.

• belief is about evidence
• 0 and 1 are not probabilities
• Occam's razor
• strawman and steelman
• privileging the hypothesis
• tabooing
• instrumental-terminal distinction of values
• don't pull probabilities out of your posterior
• introspection is often wrong
• intuitions are often wrong
• general concept of heuristics and biases
• confirmation and disconfirmation bias
• halo effect
• knowing about biases doesn't unbias you
• denotations and connotations
• many more

I'd like to hear about the experience if you're willing to share it. How basic are we talking about?

This older discussion thread seems to ask a similar question and some answers are relevant to your question. If you think your question phrased in a more specific way would elicit different kinds of responses, it might deserve its own thread.