I reacted to this article reflexively in response to the abundance of pop self help content that’s been with us forever, now in the form of non stop podcasts of people essentially giving the same advice. It’s fine, but the self-help realm is just, blah, too much of it can really be counter-productive. In so many words, the author is just echoing “there’s a lot of bullshit out there”.
Your basic Philosophy 101 class teaches interesting mental models like Cartesian doubt. That really shaped the way I thought about things for years to come.
With that said, it’s important to identify models properly. If you listen to MMA fighters or other athletes, you can start to see their incremental approach to increasing training intensity to achieve measurable results. Not parsing that out will leave you with a shadow of a mental model that, in this case, would be mostly comprised of non-core strategies (e.g Always stay positive, have no fear, never accept no for an answer, etc).
Your basic Philosophy 101 class teaches interesting mental models like Cartesian doubt. That really shaped the way I thought about things for years to come.
With that said, it’s important to identify models properly. If you listen to MMA fighters or other athletes, you can start to see their incremental approach to increasing training intensity to achieve measurable results. Not parsing that out will leave you with a shadow of a mental model that, in this case, would be mostly comprised of non-core strategies (e.g Always stay positive, have no fear, never accept no for an answer, etc).