A suggestion° for after reading the article: Asking yourself:
Where and how can you apply this to your life? With which people, in which situations, on what topics does communication tend get duel-y?
You can make trigger-action plans for those situations:
[If I’m talking with my mum and the concepts science and/or esoterism come up] → [then become very mindful and careful re her and my emotions, tone etc. – strive for collaborative truth-seeking instead of arguing.]
° Very much in the spirit of Brienne’s cognitive trigger-action plan
[If something feels key to advancing your art as a rationalist] → [stop, drop, and trigger-action plan.]
(“Um, actually …” ;) – tiny math nitpick: The reversal (test) of increasing by 50 % is decreasing by 33 %:
1000 × (1 + 50 %) = 1000 × 150 % = 1500
1500 × (1 – 33 %) = 1500 × 67 % = 1000
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