Scientific Definition
Have a thesis. Update it on evidence.
Plain-English Definition
Have a thesis. Update it on evidence.
Feynman Explanation
Convictions are positions, not identities.
Core Principle
Have a thesis. Update it on evidence.
Mechanisms
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Have a thesis. Update it on evidence.
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Pace and quality of decisions.
Inputs (Triggers)
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Outputs (Behaviors)
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Behavioral Signature
Convictions are positions, not identities.
Examples
- Investing, strategy, leadership.
- Pace and quality of decisions.
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Famous Experiments
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Design Principles
- Track your top 10 strategic beliefs. Update them publicly.
Measurement Approaches
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Evidence
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The Perverse Incentive Lens™
How this behavior is exploited — and how to redesign around it.
- Track your top 10 strategic beliefs. Update them publicly.
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Interactive Mini Network
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Knowledge Graph Neighbors
Auto-linked to the rest of the Human Behavior Taxonomy by family, domain, dimension, and shared keywords.
Your capacity to learn, unlearn, and relearn faster than the environment changes.
Malcolm Knowles's principles of adult learning: self-direction, experience as resource, readiness, problem-centered orientation, intrinsic motivation.
Amishi Jha's research: attention is a finite, depletable, but trainable cognitive resource — short daily mindfulness measurably improves it.
Approach a situation as if you knew nothing.
Unusual or bizarre material is more memorable than common material.
Hierarchy of cognitive learning: Remember → Understand → Apply → Analyze → Evaluate → Create. Benjamin Bloom, 1956 (revised 2001).
Wallace J. Nichols: proximity to water reliably shifts the nervous system toward a calmer, more creative state.
Resourcing past memories with the state you needed at the time, so old triggers stop firing the old response.
Grouping information into familiar units to improve memory and processing.
Compressing many small patterns into one larger unit your mind treats as a single object.
Anchor a peak resourceful state to an imagined spot on the floor; step into it on demand before high-stakes moments.
Associating a neutral stimulus with a meaningful one until the neutral one triggers the response.