Talking about these issues is unusual. It’s often counter-productive. People interpret it as desperation, as an admission of weakness and failure.
I think good people would increase their opinion of you if you post something you know will be viewed as low status by almost everyone. I think the people who are turned away by this article aren’t good candidates for making rapid progress.
I appreciate Elliot being explicit about this sort of stuff. I think it helps me interact more rationally with the forum.
it still will be interpreted by some people (including some who deny it in their own minds) as low status,
I hope I’m not lying to myself. I do think I appreciate this article.
it’s people who lie that they care more than they do, and then take actions in conflict with their words, who are problematic.
have I been lying about how much of a fan I am? I praised Elliot a lot in my introduction and spoke about high ambitions. I think I should’ve done more since then. Now is critical period for me to integrate CF with my life, I’ll be more active from now on.
They also are unwilling to say they don’t want criticism and thereby appear irrational.
at least I said I don’t think I can handle unbounded criticism. I want to get there eventually though.
Other people feel overwhelmed by the responsibility of trying to act like they value stuff (many people are bad at valuing anything and are unsuited to being early adopters or active members of a specialized community, but don’t admit that to themselves).
I don’t think I’m a particularly high initiative person. I think it’s really important to be high initiative and high agency. it’s not something I thought much about before I found Elliot. I thought about being productive. but high initiative is different. you could be productive in certain settings like doing a bunch of homework, but that’s stuff your teacher told you to do, it’s not like starting a project on your own and having to find all the learning material and create practice activities for yourself.
One of the reasons people don’t post much at my forums is they don’t know what they can say without a risk of receiving criticism.
I should post more. I’ve posted some stuff that I expect to get some criticism for, I’ve gotten a little better. but I think I’m still stopping some posting because of fear of criticism. It might not be that much fear of criticism, but more fear of seeming dumb, which doesn’t come without criticism, but is different from criticism on a difficult topic which I wouldn’t be expected to be good at.
, and I actually want to receive more criticism not less, so both parts of the arrangement are bad for me.
I don’t have a reserve of criticisms of Elliot that I’m holding back. I think I should try to get in a more critical mindset to think of things. at the same time he’s so much more knowledgeable and skilled than me, so it seems hard to find criticisms. maybe that’s just an excuse though? If my criticisms failed (there was no error) then I would be the one who got corrected and gaining something.
Fans in a small niche have to do stuff at much higher rates like:
- share, promote
They could also share stuff (basically everyone has friends and/or could figure out how join some relevant online communities that enable sharing like on Reddit, Facebook or Discord
I have one friend who could care. I’ve already shared a bunch of Elliots stuff and tried to discuss it with him. he didn’t care that much. sad. I still hope that in the future when I’m higher skill I could be more persuasive and explain the importance of philosophy. I actually have one more friend who could be interested.
would it be helpful to join online communities now when I’m a beginner? I kinda want to power-up first and be more persuasive when I’m trying to promote and debate for CF.
how can there not be people demanding Elliots attention all the time. I find this fact about the world baffling. how can it be so easy to get his attention? why isn’t there already a bunch of proven people who have done a bunch of learning who would be more interesting to talk to than some newbies.
there are people who are successful at different things. really productive people with high initiative in their field. but where are the people who are generally rational, truly independent thinkers, honest and generally high initiative? somehow there seems to almost not exist any. if they do exist why haven’t they recognized Elliot yet? is Elliot just too unknown?