Antithesis

To battle

Confirmation bias

try the hardest to think about the disconfirming evidence of the ideas you hold.

Links:

Nick Bostrom

writes about it in

Write Your Hypothetical Apostasy

. Also see Inversion by Farnham Street

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Ray Dalio in

Tim Ferriss Show

explains Hedging. The term is used in financial context and describes investments that will should have opposite dynamic to the one a person already holds. Hedging is used to minimize risk and also can be applied to thinking, planning etc.

Red teaming – A red team is a team that is formed with the objective of subjecting an organization to rigorous critique and challenge.

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The idea of using red teams has been around for a long time. Commercial enterprises, such as IBM, and government agencies such as Defence Intelligence and the Central Intelligence Agency, have long used them to reduce risks and to improve their problem solving.

7 Ways to Maximize Misery by CGP Grey – How to define what makes you happy by focusing on the misery

Laurie Santos

Happiness Lab

told that she uses a stoic exercise to boost appreciation for what you already have. Imagine this is the last time you see your kid, you use your smartphone, you go your favorite coffeeshop.

Other names: Red teaming