Pick the Top of the Range

• Notice each activity that you’re doing as a separate event.
• For every event, ask yourself what you can do to give it your full attention. Turn off your phone? Turn your body fully toward the person asking for your attention?

• The closet pessimists view historical progress as coincidence but think low growth or stagnation is more likely.
• Next are the sceptics. They agree that progress is likely, but question the validity of the data or if something is missing.
• T...

The main route to meta-knowledge is by doing research. And it involves studying people, more than books or in a particular school.

But avoid simply asking people for advice. When you ask for advice, you’ll often get vague, unhelpful answers. Instead, you need to observe what the peop...