Ecology of Practices

"Mutually reinforcing set of activities, practices or psychotechnologies 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, the tendency to find present stimuli much more salient than future stimuli
 * 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"

- Vervaeke Community google doc