A 10 year project to create an Operating System for your mind
The main problem I’m currently working on is this: “How do I change my own beliefs?” Especially if I don’t think that the belief is true. If I think it’s true, I already believe it. But if I don’t think that belief is true, how can I still ‘believe’ it? How do I make it true in my own mind? I have a few ideas for this - but nothing that works reliably yet. At this point, I want to turn...
After taking a long break from working on belief systems(and writing a book in the meantime), I think it’s time to get back to belief system. The problem that got me stuck was how to define the term ‘Belief Systems’. The concept is not new(the oldest usage I could find goes all the way back to Plato and his...
When you learn about the psychology of self, one obvious place to search for is personality psychology. Branch of psychology that studies personality and its variations. These show how individuals differ from each other. But before we continue, a small disclaimer. Personality tests are designed to put people into neat categories - this is not how people are in real life. These tests...
The psychology of self is much more straightforward than I expected. All I had to do was search for ‘Self-*’ - most things related to self were helpfully titled some variant of Self- Something . Starting with the Self-Concept. Self-Concept and Self-Schema Your self-concept is the collection of beliefs you hold about yourself. These...
As I start my new ‘ Know Thyself ’ project, the first place I got to is Philosophy. Yes, it’s a crutch. Thankfully, but typically, philosophy has a lot to talk about it. The idea of ‘No-self’ from Buddhism caught my interest. Self in Eastern Philosophy According to Buddhism, the study of...
“Know thyself” has been a guiding principle in Greek philosophy - so much so that it has been inscribed upon the temple of Apollo as far back as 400 BC. In our day and age, this principle has moved into the realm of psychology. We have a big list of surveys and personality tests that help you understand yourself. There are many reasons why this is considered as an important...
The first step of your Personal Knowledge Management(PKM) journey is to setup your knowledge base. This is the one place that will have all the information you have captured and organized over time. Many advantages of PKM comes from the fact that there is one place that has all the information you’ll...
Ever since I have learned about Personal Knowledge Management(PKM) couple of years ago, I have been experimenting with it. I(and many others) have noticed that PKM tools and process will supercharge Journaling. If you use the principles of PKM when writing journals you’ll get an inter-linked journal that will...
PKM, or Personal Knowledge Management, is one of the most under-rated skills you can learn. If you get better at PKM, it will improve all areas of your life. You have to keep using and reusing your existing knowledge - the better you are at capturing and reusing knowledge, the better your life will be . This is especially true if you are a knowledge worker. Their ability...
We have been talking about Belief Systems for the last few posts. There is enormous power in belief systems - if you can change your belief system, you can change your subjective reality. Therefore, you need to be careful on which belief system you accept. You get most of your belief system about how the world is currently from...
My last article was about Belief Systems - the theory part. This article is the practical part - the ABC Framework. If used properly, this framework can change your life - you can control your responses to everything that happens around you. The idea of Belief Systems is well known in Psychology - especially in Cognitive Behavior...
Your subjective reality is created when you assign meaning to an external objective reality using your belief systems . When you change these belief systems, you are changing your subjective reality. MindOS is basically a collection of such belief systems that you can “install”(or as regular people call it, believe). The end goal is to change your subjective...
In the last article about Unlearning , I talked about Motivated Reasoning and Confirmation Bias. These are two examples of thinking flaws. They are bugs in our brain’s programming . There is a huge list of such brain bugs - they are called Cognitive Biases. Ask any programmer and you’ll know that their bugs are...
MindOS is a project to create a set of belief systems that will act as an Operating System for the Mind . But to install this OS in your mind, you need to unlearn a few things that you currently believe. Unlearning is the process of examining our belief systems and updating our...
I am trying to create a set of belief systems that will act as an Operating System for the Mind. When I tried studying about belief systems, and knowledge management systems , I found out about Epistemology. Epistemology is the theory of knowledge ....
The goal of MindOS is to create a collection of belief systems that will work as a mental operating system. I have no idea how to do that - but I do know frameworks that can get me to the solution. When you try to figure out how to do something new(like, oh, I don’t know, build a OS for the MIND?), you should NOT start thinking of...
I have a rather big personal project - my current estimate says it will take me around 10 years to develop it. This newsletter is a running log on its progress and the things I learned along the way. The project is MindOS and this is the story behind it… I’m an engineer. I always thought that humanity will solve its problems with technology . But as I grew older, I...