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by pdamoc 1940 days ago
The challenge of scientific thinking is becoming aware of the ways in which your mind might lead you to wrong conclusions. This is the Toyota way and what Chris Argyris calls productive reasoning. It is becoming aware of your cognitive biases [1] and using processes to overcome them. You don't need randomized controlled trials but you do need to emit hypotheses about your actions, act and then evaluate the results of your actions.

Mindful meditation has been proven useful and has helped me too. What also helped me was writing exercises (like the Self Authoring program [2] )

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Cognitiv...

[2] https://www.selfauthoring.com/