Mutually reinforcing set of activities, practices that catalyze specific steps of anagoge for a specific individual. Developed through trial, error, reflection and informed by cognitive science.
A successful ecology of practices would allow for an individual to:
- recognize and correct for his or her own cognitive biases, including but not limited to:
- Hyperbolic Discounting
- Confirmation bias, the tendency to seek out and interpret information that confirms one’s own existing beliefs
- Halo effect, the tendency for a person’s positive or negative traits to “spill over” from one personality area to another in others’ perceptions of them
- Loss aversion, the tendency to prefer avoiding losses rather than acquiring equivalent gains
- reduce modal confusion
- Consumerism, advertising and market interests try to convince people (often with great success) to satiate being or developmental needs by buying things, which would be a solution to a having mode (physical needs) problem.
- cultivate healthy, sustainable and productive: mindfulness, habits and relationships
- Avoid addiction aka reciprocal narrowing