[Read5for5 📚] Steelmanning: How to Find the Truth by Helping Your Opponent

“Full effort is full victory.”

― Mahatma Gandhi

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Hi friends,

This is Kei and Kazuki from Glasp 👋

We are excited to start Day 4 of the 5 Day Reading Challenge 📚✨ Here are three good articles we choose, so when you finish reading any of them or any article you want, share it on Twitter with the hashtag, "#read5for5"! Let's read good articles together and connect with like-minded people🤝

Today's Reading List 📚

(1) Intellectual Sparring Partners by Sahil Bloom (5 mins)

• Intellectual Sparring Partners: Individuals who enhance your reasoning through informed debates.

• Identifying a Partner: Seek those with diverse backgrounds, clear thinking, and a direct yet kind demeanor.

• Value: They provide fresh insights, fostering personal and professional growth.

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(2) The 5-hour rule: How to turn a wasted day into a successful one by Jonny Thomson (5 mins)

• The 5-hour Rule: Spend an hour daily (five days a week) on learning and reflection. Figures like Benjamin Franklin and Elon Musk follow this.

• Time Management: Deducting sleep, work, and daily chores, people have a few discretionary hours. How these are spent can define success or mediocrity.

• Applying the Rule: Learn through varied mediums, embrace and learn from failures, and regularly reflect on experiences.

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(3) Steelmanning: How to Find the Truth by Helping Your Opponent by Chris Meyer (7 mins)

• Steelmanning Defined: Presenting an opponent's argument in its strongest form, contrasting with strawmanning, which misrepresents it.

• Three-Step Challenge:

  1. Understand and articulate the opposing viewpoint.

  2. Collaborate with opponents to enhance their argument.

  3. Defend the opponent's stance against your original belief.

• Practical Value: While time-intensive, steelmanning deepens understanding and promotes genuine dialogue. Other methods like Rapoport’s Rule offer similar benefits.

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Excited to learn with you!
See you tomorrow again ;)

Best,
Glasp team

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