Very recently—in just the last few decades—the human species has acquired a great deal of new knowledge about human rationality.
Perhaps this is an assumption? Schools of thoughts and philosophies have existed since time immemorial to address skillsets which would require an individual to live in balance and harmony with environment and themselves (which would conceptually be similar to focus on lifestyle rather on organization challenges, which the author talks about in preface of this chapter). With this as a North Star, it would be easy to identify skill set by just emotional, mental and physical wellbeing and measurable health (as opposed to the hypothesis author proposes that it is difficult to verify skill in previous paragraph). Perhaps what the author tries to address is - 'in our current epoch defined by industrial era policies and control, brain muscles have been eroded due to deep level automations and lack of training and education?
Egs. Patanjalis Yoga Sutras 3000 year foundational yoga text - 1.2 "Yog chitta vritti niroda" or "Praxis is the cessation of biases of the mind" Confucious's Analects addresses the same challenges, in a more detailed description.
Perhaps this is an assumption? Schools of thoughts and philosophies have existed since time immemorial to address skillsets which would require an individual to live in balance and harmony with environment and themselves (which would conceptually be similar to focus on lifestyle rather on organization challenges, which the author talks about in preface of this chapter). With this as a North Star, it would be easy to identify skill set by just emotional, mental and physical wellbeing and measurable health (as opposed to the hypothesis author proposes that it is difficult to verify skill in previous paragraph). Perhaps what the author tries to address is - 'in our current epoch defined by industrial era policies and control, brain muscles have been eroded due to deep level automations and lack of training and education?
Egs. Patanjalis Yoga Sutras 3000 year foundational yoga text - 1.2 "Yog chitta vritti niroda" or "Praxis is the cessation of biases of the mind"
Confucious's Analects addresses the same challenges, in a more detailed description.