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Archetypes give rise to doctrines Doctrines are basic sets of beliefs and desires relevant to decision-making.

Tempo

Venkatesh Rao

When you give up integrity of methods (in terms of skilled discipline and/or ethics) you break the feedback loop of mindful practice and growth that keeps your cognitive abilities and procedural-ethical judgments strong and growing. So you experience cognitive decline.

The Art of Gig, Volume 1

Venkatesh Rao, Grace Witherell, and Jenna Dixon

If I haven’t yet persuaded you that “mistakes” can be useful in persuasion, consider a small 2012 study by researcher Daniel Oppenheimer that found students had better recall when a font was harder to read.3 Oppenheimer explains the unexpected result by noting that people slow down and concentrate harder to compensate for the hard-to-read font. That extra concentration is what makes lasting memories form.

Win Bigly

Scott Adams

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