Here's a corollary: http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/11/read-history-of-philosophy-backwards/ http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/11/read-history-of-philoso...

Here's a corollary: http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/11/read-history-of-philosophy-backwards/ http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/11/read-history-of-philoso... tl;dr read the works of thinkers who were wrong in the past, in order to expand your search space to find out what you're wrong about in the present.