A course · 3 journeys · 15 concepts
The Examined Mind
How to think. The front door, and the tools every later course is aimed with.
The operating manual for your own mind. You learn how belief forms and when it can be trusted, how your mind distorts reality before you ever reason with it, and the deliberate questioning moves that can take anything apart. You leave able to audit any belief, yours or anyone else's - and everything you learn after this lands deeper because of it.
No videos. No quizzes. Each concept is one guided conversation that ends when you can wield the idea in your own words - and every idea you earn becomes a star on your own map of understanding.
The arc
- 01
The Foundations of Thought
5 conceptsYou will be able to take any belief, see the lens it was formed through, and judge for yourself whether that lens can be trusted.
Socratic Questioning · First Principles Thinking · Plato's Allegory of the Cave · Epistemic Humility · Bayesian Thinking
- 02
Reality Deceives
5 conceptsYou will catch your own mind distorting reality as it happens, and audit the illusion before it costs you.
The Map Is Not the Territory · Survivorship Bias · The Availability Heuristic · Confirmation Bias · Metacognition
- 03
The Art of Questioning
5 conceptsYou will be able to take any claim or problem apart with a toolkit of deliberate reasoning moves.
Inversion · Falsifiability · Steelmanning · Second-Order Thinking · Question Behind the Question
What you keep
Every concept you graduate becomes a Flash - the idea in your words, kept. Every journey ends in a capstone: you bring its ideas together on something real from your own world, and seal a constellation with a name. The course is complete when its constellations are.
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