Nikolay B Petrov
Connection: with self, with ideas, with people….
About
PhD, Psychology
- 2023-2026
- Rediscovering Personality using Large Language Models
MSc Psychological Research Methods
- 2020-2021
- Distinction
BSc Psychology
- 2016-2020
- First class, top of the class
Research Assistant
- March, 2023 – present
- Identification of super-forecasters
Research Assistant
- June, 2021 – Feb, 2023
- Cognition and Computational Brain lab
Research Assistant
- Mar, 2021 – Sep, 2023
- Personality and Social Dynamics lab
Research Assistant
- Nov, 2017 – Oct, 2020
- Super Recognisers Greenwich lab
Blog
Vulnerable but impenetrable
Seek to be vulnerable but impenetrable... Trust that, on net, the value in a deeper connection to the world is worth the risk. Ensure that should your vulnerability be taken advantage of, your self is resilient and robust enough to withstand the storm.
Don’t set goals. Reflect instead.
Maybe after hundreds of hours of reflection and experience, then you can set yourself goals. But, at that point, you are probably already the kind of person who embodies that value. And at that point, of what use is setting a goal to do something to get you to express a value, if the behaviours downstream of that value are already the default ones?
Knowing Thy Future Self: Formalising the Process of Predicting Our Own Future
Whether we want it or not, we are constantly thinking about the future and preparing accordingly. Our currents thoughts and actions are tightly intertwined with the conclusions we draw based on the predictions about our own future selves. Hence, sharpening the quality of our future-predictions can save us hours, days, or even decades of suffering and instead make our current – and future – selves more effective in the world.