The evidence underneath

Primary sources on how attention, self-knowledge, feeling and will actually work. One question each, an evidence grade, and a probe you can run on yourself. Not therapy, not diagnosis, not a personality test.

Start with five · How the grades work

The shelves

• Attention (5)
  What you notice, and what noticing costs.
• Self (5)
  Whether the thing doing the reporting can be trusted.
• Feeling (4)
  How emotion is built, labelled and forecast.
• Will (4)
  Intention, situation, and what breaks the link.
• Meaning (4)
  Worth, purpose, and the difference between them.
• Practice (5)
  Things that can be done, with their real sizes.
• Evidence (5)
  Claims that did not survive, kept on purpose.
• Measure (4)
  Instruments, and what each one cannot see.

Why this shape

Most writing about the mind is a claim with no size attached. Here every entry says what kind of evidence stands behind it, and the evidence shelf keeps five claims that did not survive replication, because knowing the failure rate is part of knowing yourself.