Curt Doolittle

Category: Human Behavior and Cognitive Science

  • “the Stoic way accepted by warrior cultures throughout history, and throughout t

    —“the Stoic way accepted by warrior cultures throughout history, and throughout the world though, is to take responsibility for yourself. Accept that you have absolute control over what you have control over, and don’t worry about the rest of it. If you take the responsibility you need to take, then you will perform. If you don’t, you will fail.

    You cannot control whether you achieve X in XX:XX. What you can control is, “I will do XYZ every day. I will try to perform better and faster, every time I perform XYZ. If I do this, eventually, I will achieve X in XX:XX, then I will continue to improve.”—

    Source date (UTC): 2015-02-20 06:05:00 UTC

  • “You are responsible for you. You are responsible for your actions. You do have

    —“You are responsible for you. You are responsible for your actions. You do have control over who your enemy will be fighting. You have control over the training you will have had. You have control over what speed and accuracy you will be able to achieve. You have control over whether you are fit enough to move, fast enough. You are in control of everything that you are in control of. Accept that responsibility.

    The Germanic warrior trained hard, to be better than his foe, so that he could perform valorous acts on the battlefield, and hoped that the Valkyries noticed, and took him, if it turned out that his foe was better than him. The Samurai trained hard so that he could perform well, so that hopefully, his ancestors would recognize his honor in the afterlife.”—

    Source date (UTC): 2015-02-20 06:04:00 UTC

  • “Whether we use the Roman term “stoicism,” or we discuss Germanic warlords, or J

    —“Whether we use the Roman term “stoicism,” or we discuss Germanic warlords, or Japanese samurai, we’re talking about the same thing. Stoicism is the calm acceptance of responsibility. It is the acceptance that I am responsible for what I am capable of controlling. “—

    Source date (UTC): 2015-02-20 06:03:00 UTC

  • Responsibility

    —“Whether we use the Roman term “stoicism,” or we discuss Germanic warlords, or Japanese samurai, we’re talking about the same thing. Stoicism is the calm acceptance of responsibility. It is the acceptance that I am responsible for what I am capable of controlling. “—

  • Responsibility

    —“Whether we use the Roman term “stoicism,” or we discuss Germanic warlords, or Japanese samurai, we’re talking about the same thing. Stoicism is the calm acceptance of responsibility. It is the acceptance that I am responsible for what I am capable of controlling. “—

  • by law professor Dan Kahan at Yale show that even highly numerate people are pro

    http://www.culturalcognition.net/blog/2013/12/12/the-value-of-civic-science-literacy.html–“Studies by law professor Dan Kahan at Yale show that even highly numerate people are prone to cognitive traps when the data contradicts the conclusion most congenial to their political values.”–

    Source date (UTC): 2015-02-17 15:54:00 UTC

  • WANT TO BE DESIRED “1. For women, the number of sexual partners decreases with i

    http://www.hookingupsmart.com/2013/02/12/hookinguprealities/the-most-attractive-women-have-the-least-casual-sex/WE WANT TO BE DESIRED

    “1. For women, the number of sexual partners decreases with increasing physical attractiveness.

    “2. Very physically attractive women are more likely to form exclusive relationships than to form purely sexual relationships.

    “3. Attractive women are less likely to have sexual intercourse within the first week of meeting a partner.

    “4. Underweight and normal-weight women are more likely to report romantic experience.

    “5. Overweight women report approximately 10% more partners than normal-weight women whereas obese women report approximately 10% fewer partners.

    “6. For women the effect of being underweight on within-relationship outcomes resembles the effect of being very physically attractive.”

    Source date (UTC): 2015-02-15 03:06:00 UTC

  • Skye Stewart You made me think. Why does reading a novel ‘work’? Aside from the

    Skye Stewart

    You made me think.

    Why does reading a novel ‘work’? Aside from the truth or falsehood, good or bad measurement, why do we learn from reading narratives?

    Now, I am trying to eliminate deception in matters of public political speech – at least that kind of deception that was introduced in the 19th century by Marx, Boaz, Cantor and Freud, but expanded by Keynes and nearly the entire discipline of academic philosophy, psychology, and sociology.

    But I don’t really attack mythology and religion. And I am perfectly happy with ‘rule of thumb’ science. It doesn’t appear to matter whether something is precise, scientific, and causally explicable if it empirically produces positive ends. It matters if something produces negative ends, is immoral (imposes costs).

    So when I say that I am OK with imprecise IQ tests, personality tests, and moral tests, that is because the test data is not the output that is in question. It’s whether the individuals now possess a non-subjective means of categorization and comprehension.

    In philosophical terms, it’s epistemelogically justificationary if I were to demand a high standard of good things. When the purpose is critical instead: to demand a high standard in order to advocate bad things.

    Thanks for provoking thoughts.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-02-14 05:33:00 UTC

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    http://www.returnofkings.com/36915/what-humans-can-learn-from-the-mice-utopia-experiment

    Source date (UTC): 2015-02-08 04:55:00 UTC

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    http://stevenpinker.com/files/pinker/files/sociology-2015-pinker-0038038514556797.pdf

    Source date (UTC): 2015-02-07 13:36:00 UTC