Seeing with Fresh Eyes

A sequence on the incredibly difficult feat of getting your brain to actually think about something, instead of instantly stopping on the first thought that comes to mind.

This is sometimes referred to as "thinking outside the box" by people who, for your convenience, will go on to helpfully point out exactly where "outside the box" is located. The Less Wrong version is called "thinking outside the 'Outside the Box' box". Isn't it funny how nonconformists all dress the same...

Subsequence of How To Actually Change Your Mind.

Blog posts

• Anchoring and Adjustment
• Priming and Contamination
• Do We Believe Everything We're Told?
• Cached Thoughts
• The "Outside the Box" Box
• Original Seeing
• The Logical Fallacy of Generalization from Fictional Evidence
• How to Seem (and Be) Deep
• We Change Our Minds Less Often Than We Think
• Hold Off On Proposing Solutions
• Asch's Conformity Experiment
• On Expressing Your Concerns
• Lonely Dissent
• The Genetic Fallacy

Other formats

• Readlist - view this sequence as an eBook using Readability.

Other blog posts

• The Third Alternative - on not skipping the step of looking for additional alternatives
• Lost Purposes - on noticing when you're still doing something that has become disconnected from its original purpose