Pascal

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

• TVTragic Vision

  9 / 10
• MRMystical Receptivity

  8 / 10
• TRTrust in Reason

  7 / 10
• RTReverence for Tradition

  7 / 10

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

• CleanthesKEEL

  Hymn to Zeus; Stoic providence and assent to cosmic order.

• DignagaTHRESHOLD

  Pramanasamuccaya — the founder of Buddhist epistemology.

• KierkegaardPILGRIM

  Subjectivity is truth. The leap of faith. Three stages: aesthetic, ethical, religious.

• ZhiyiTHRESHOLD

  Tiantai founder — three truths held in mutual containment.

• FazangTHRESHOLD

  Huayan — Indra's net; each part contains the whole.

• Karen ArmstrongTHRESHOLD

  The Case for God — religion as practice that re-trains attention.

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

• Premortem →

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

• Negative visualization →

  Imagine losing what you have, briefly and concretely, to remember it's a gift.

• Memento mori →

  A short, deliberate confrontation with mortality. Clarifying.