| I'm not sure if it's the most valuable, but it's definitely one of the questions that gave me a lot of valuable insights and changed my world view dramatically: "Which of my beliefs are false?" Or "What, among the things I believe in, is not true?" This question seems very obvious for any intelligent person to ask, but as I put more and more attention to it - I discover more and more shocking things about myself and the world. I have SO much more false beliefs than I've expected. Because I think of myself as skeptic and atheist, as a rational and "scientific" person, I had no idea that me, and other sceptics/atheists still hold so much beliefs that turn out to be ridiculous and made up when you look at them closely. And I have no idea how much more is left to discover. The book that really taught me to ask this question, by the way, is Jed McKenna's enlightenment trilogy. I disagree with a lot of it's new-age'y ideas, but I got a lot of value out of it because of this question, highly recommend it. To put it shortly "put as much of value and attention into unlearning things and identifying the false knowledge as you put into learning and knowledge" |