Greetings Readers!
Here is the latest Monday Muse with a perennial reminder, question, and recommendation(s) to consider. Be wise and be well this week!
๐ Perennial Reminder(s)
The planning fallacy has several causes. One of them is wishful thinking: we hope our projects will be completed sooner rather than later, without our having to spend too much money on them, and these wishes are reflected in our planning and budgeting. Itโs also important to recognize that the planning fallacy is in large part a type of overconfidence that stems from the illusion of fluency. When we are planning, we tend to focus only on how the project should run, on the things that have to be done to make it successful. When you picture those processes in your mind, they all run smoothly, engendering overconfidence. [โฆ]
Source: Thinking 101 by Woo-Kyoung Ahn (Listen to the conversation).
๐ก Perennial Question(s)
Emerson taught that pain, loss, suffering, and conflict are teachers and guides in disguise, crucial for our awakening; and that nonconformity, inconsistency, introversion, stubbornness, quirkiness, and a โlittle wickednessโ are beneficial virtues for self-realization. Following the crowd is a mistake, and changing your mind is a very good thing. These were eye-opening insights for me, opposed to everything I had been taught. The idea that we are spiritual beings first, personalities second, that no real separation exists between human life and God, cast a sacred light on existence that I had never seen before. [โฆ]
Source: Lessons from an American Stoic by Mark Matousek (Listen to the conversation).
๐ฅ Recommendation(s)
This week's recommendation is a recent episode of The Wisdom Podcast. The specific episode is titled Buddhist Philosophy In Depth with Jay Garfield (author of Losing Ourselves). Garfield teaches and pursues research in the philosophy of mind, foundations of cognitive science, logic, philosophy of language, Buddhist philosophy, cross-cultural hermeneutics, theoretical and applied ethics, and epistemology.
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Thank you for reading/listening; I hope you found something useful.
Until next time, be wise and be well,
J.W.
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