>>11390009You'll never be an accurate thinker and taking too much pride in the intellect is a fools errand. Anyway, learn arabic. Learn chinese. Learn history. Learn rigorous mathematical proofs. Learn about propaganda, power, and biases. You'll always be thinking in some sort of box and miss the forest for the trees no matter who you are or where you're at.
I can think in very advanced modes, but I've learned to most of the time just stay in zen mode. I don't waste energy, I easily get cognitively exhausted in like two days if I tryhard. On an average day only like 15 seconds of cognitive exertion is actually necessary. Intuitions will come anyway if they are necessary. Better to save hard thinking for the 95-5 pareto.
Even as a kid I would use the little world experience I had to produce 3d visualizations of people and organizations in various graph theory applications. Basically everything fuzzy can have very worthwhile mental models of some lazy intuitive concepts mushed together interdisciplinarily if you just have some foundations down. For example you can start out just imagining little fun colored plastic humans standing in pyramids like a company structure. Then multiple companies and promotions etc. Then keep it and move through time with directed acyclic graphs keeping track of actions and project maps and so on. Apply your own shorthand to the different people in the structure, for their psyche, values, desires, closest personal bonds into the graphs with different colorsed hovering symbols, edges and so on. One small application of intense visualization.
Staring at a river for 30 minutes empty minded turns out not to be a waste of time when it a few years later gives you an instant understanding of vector fields with forces and so on. Collect experience from the world with an empty mind and think intensely when it's necessary and it will come together. And always do the boring fundamentals in anything until you die from boredom
