“The more my actions are directed towards future pleasures, the more I am incapable of enjoying any pleasures at all.” Even before psychologists started to study how “[our] present [selves are] sabotaging [our] future happiness”, Alan Watts had already offered his own take on the matter: it’s contradictory to plan on how to be happy in the future, because the future never comes; chasing after the future tethers you, making you incapable of enjoying the current moment’s pleasures. Read full article here
Education
Overcoming Bias
Kai Cheng’s professor had a brilliant scheme. In his first lecture, he promised that each lecture would feature a “Lie of the Day”. But why? It made his students more attentive and analytical, poring over every detail of his lecture and making sense of why things were true. It was such a powerful teaching method that his students digested his most technical lectures quite easily because they tried so hard to catch his lie. The kicker? There was no lie in that first lecture; he had lied about that too! Read full article here
Merv
August 17, 2022
