Frances Wright

The four dimensions in the 16-axis model where this thinker scores highest. People in this archetype tend to lean the same way.

• UIUniversalist Impulse

  8 / 10
• WPWill to Power

  7 / 10
• TETrust in Experience

  7 / 10
• SRSkeptical Reflex

  7 / 10

The six thinkers whose 16-dimensional positions sit closest to this one. Useful as next-reading suggestions.

• Tom PaineFORGE

  Rights of Man — common sense against monarchy and dogma.

• Bhimrao AmbedkarFORGE

  Annihilation of Caste — conversion to Buddhism as moral rebellion.

• Charlotte Perkins GilmanFORGE

  Women and Economics — domestic labor as economic invisibility.

• Paulo FreireFORGE

  Pedagogy of the Oppressed — education as the practice of freedom.

• Joseph PriestleyFORGE

  Necessity, materialism, oxygen — Unitarian radical chemist.

• Anna Julia CooperFORGE

  A Voice from the South — Black women as the measure of any republic.

Short exercises in the same tradition as Frances Wright's thought. Each takes 5–25 minutes.

• Premortem →

  Imagine the failure of your plan in vivid detail before you start.

• Steelmanning the opposite →

  Write the strongest possible version of the view you most reject.

• Switch sides →

  Argue both sides of a debate, alternating, until you no longer know which side you started on.