REALITY-BASED PERCEPTION

Written By Duane Nelson


2 IDEAS FROM ME

  • Reality-based perception is uncomfortable but essential to living your best life. You will lose certainty, outgrow some identities, and feel temporary instability. However, you will gain meaningful clarity, resilience, better decisions, integrity, and wellbeing.

  • Your brain is a prediction engine, not a camera. Reality-test your assumptions. Falsifiability is the key difference between ideology and reality. If nothing could disprove it, it’s ideology. Emotional intensity does not equal truth. Understand opposing arguments, alternative explanations, and failed predictions. Pressure-test probabilities with Bayesian Reasoning, Neural networking, and machine learning.

2 QUOTES FROM SAGES

  • “Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.”—Friedrich Nietzsche

  • “It’s difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”—Upton Sinclair

1 QUESTION FOR YOU TO EXPLORE

  • What convictions do you have that are not falsifiable?

Namaste,

Duane Nelson

Duane Nelson

Ultrajourney Insight is an Anacortes Washington-based non-profit organization providing mindfulness & well-being services designed to ignite the adventure of a lifetime. The founder, Duane Nelson, is a writer, speaker, and teacher with four decades of parenting, wilderness, & international technology leadership. His professional insights come from chemical engineering and automation leadership at Philips, Intel, and Amazon. His adventure insights flow from ultramarathons, mountaineering, canyoneering, and adventure racing in Nepal, Alaska, Colorado, Washington, Oregon, Hawaii, Mexico, British Columbia and Alberta.

https://ultrajourneyinsight.org
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