The Inner Path to Clear Thinking: Thoughts from a CIA Veteran

1. intelligence is a matter of applying the correct model without allowing your emotions to interfere.

2. your models and your application of them are affected by your experience, emotions, and social constraints; and the specific information you have been exposed to. it is important to continue to attempt to understand how your perspective is distorted by your own self.

3. in order to do that, train yourself on common mental biases and iteratively seek improvement.

links included- https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intellig...

https://www.fs.blog/2014/02/decision-journal/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases