# Do You Actually Want to Make Progress?

**URL:** <https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/do-you-actually-want-to-make-progress/1693>\
**Category:** Elliot Temple\
**Tags:** bot, curiosity-blog\
**Created:** [January 6, 2023, 7:43pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/do-you-actually-want-to-make-progress/1693 "2023-01-06T19:43:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![S\_Emiya](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/cdc98d/32.png) [@S\_Emiya](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/S_Emiya)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2023, 2:22am UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/do-you-actually-want-to-make-progress/1693/4 "2023-01-07T02:22:57Z")

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Thanks for your feedback. In honesty I don’t spend any of my free time thinking or worrying about animal welfare. It’s more that I saw nobody responded to your Animal Welfare Overview and I thought it would be fun to try writing about a difficult topic. Like when you exercise and try for a max weight for 1-3 repetitions.

Most of my time is spent practicing grammar, so I’m not sure how much more basic I can go than that. I also like to read Atlas Shrugged and your writing. I especially like your article on [liberalism](https://www.elliottemple.com/essays/liberalism), which I have read many times. As you mention in your recent articles, we shouldn’t move on from something when we just barely understand it. It’s better to aim for 100% conscious mastery before incorporating it into our subconscious and moving on. It’s important to avoid missing small errors because they will cause problems in the foundation of our “knowledge skyscraper” later on.

Also, last time I wrote a post about gender identity (which likely involved some overreach) you gave me some valuable feedback:

> [@Creative Thinking and Gender Identity](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/creative-thinking-and-gender-identity/522/14):
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> This contradicts CF’s rejection of evaluating arguments by degree of goodness.

This made me realize I should read more about Yes or No Philosophy.

> [@Creative Thinking and Gender Identity](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/creative-thinking-and-gender-identity/522/28):
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> Stuff like this is pretty typical in my experience. It’s an example of why I think people should study and practice grammar trees. I think that would help people. I’ve been making educational stuff about it because I think it’s an important problem for most people to work on.

And this is what made me start practicing grammar and purchase your videos.

Is it sometimes useful to try something too hard for you to help expose your weaknesses?

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