Irrationality Game:
I believe Plato (and others) were right when they said music develops some form of sensibility, some sort of compassion. I posit a link between the capacity of understanding music and understanding other people by creating accurate images of them in our head, and of how they feel. 80%
Dear Cosmos
Thank you for you answer. I'm not too shabby, that is I can easily turn a stranger into an acquaintance or lover. It's from acquaintance to friend, and finding acquaintances I'd like to be friends with that I could improve (which translates to chapters 4 and 5 of your book, which sadly are not available). Please do update when they are.
Thank you.
Since I presume you have read the book, may I ask, how did it work for you?
I'm very interested in upping my social skills.
Cheers
As Rain said it is based on the book.
The more I read your post the more difficulty I have in answering. I don't know how valuable your time is, so cannot say if this book is worth your time or not.
It is not worth mine, but, alas, it was once.
If you read a book by starting on the first word and going to the next one until you arrive at the last one, then read it, the first half.
If you never read a book arguing for the classics, then read it, the second half.
Or instead of following what I say skim it, and decide if it is worth your time.
Even better, use ...
Don't waste your time. Here is the algorithm:
A. Systematic skimming or pre-reading.
This is achieved by: reading the title, table of contents, preface, editors note, introduction, back flap, etc.
Reading the index to see the major themes, topics, ideas, and terms the author will be discussing.
Reading through the book by reading the first couple of pages or so, the last couple of pages or so, and then flipping through the book, dipping in here and there.
B. Superficial reading is the second part of inspectional reading. To achieve this you must r...
So to make myself clear, maybe I'll get some responses. If 100000 people use strategy A which gives results 10% of the time, and 100 people use strategy B which gives results 50% of the time (results as in they get rich), you will have 10000 people that got rich trough A and only 50 trough B.
If you wanted to get rich you'd be better served using strategy B, but you cannot see the cemetery of strategy A only looking at the Forbes 400. So isn't this strategy not only not optimal, but actually harmful?
" Google the list of the Forbes 400.
Go through each of the biographies for people on the list (or the first 200, or the first 100, or whatever is a large enough sample).
Write down how they got rich.
Summarize the data above: How do most rich people get rich?
Actually looking at data is simple, easy, and straightforward, and yet almost no one actually does it."
Won't that incur in the "not seeing the cemetery" fallacy?