Elevate your understanding of the world and never get stuck on "but that's impossible!" again. This workshop will demystify the models we use to navigate reality, lay bare their essential components, and equip you with the mental tools to manipulate them to your advantage. You will practice the art of shifting between abstraction levels to unlock solutions to seemingly insurmountable problems, transcending the limits of conventional thought.

Passing the Intellectual Turing Test of a group can be thought of as signaling that you understand their world view enough to use their language and ideas fluently.

This workshop focuses on errors stemming from the imprecise use of words and categories in our thoughts and arguments.

This week, we will discuss the art of accurate decision-making. We will first warm up with a simple example and then move on to solving our own personal decision problems. By the end of this workshop, we will have a better understanding of how to make good, effective decisions.

This week we will discuss how to make good decisions. In this workshop, we will review the steps to building a decision tree and practice breaking down real-life scenarios into options and critical variables. By the end of this workshop, we will have a better understanding of how to apply decision-making skills in our daily lives.

Making good decisions is synonymous with being effective in the world. The art of accurate decision-making is at the intersection of epistemic rationality (understanding the world) and instrumental rationality (taking action).

Making good decisions is synonymous with being effective in the world. The art of accurate decision-making is at the intersection of epistemic rationality (understanding the world) and instrumental rationality (taking action).

Our minds have default tools for evaluating decisions, and we use these tools intuitively as we make mundane decisions. When a person experiences damage to the region of the brain that generates emotional responses, they will have enormous difficulty making basic decisions, such as where to eat lunch. This fact highlights the degree to which your "feeling" about your options informs your decision-making process. This week we will deconstruct the most common "feelings" about decisions into numbers, and thereby decode the useful work our emotional mind is doing for us. Your feelings about decisions can be broadly broken down into distinct emotional types.

Felt Sense Introspection, popularly known as "Focusing," is a powerful technique for understanding, articulating, and sometimes resolving your own feelings.

This workshop teaches you how to pause the internal feedback loops that keep you stuck in reactivity, and how to access calm, self-directed concentration when you’re ready to re-engage. The result: greater clarity, better recovery, and more intentional action.