No Stupid Questions

By "escape illusions" do you mean not falling for and being able to overcome false beliefs?

I'd say you should familiarize yourself with logical fallacies and cognitive biases, and to become accustomed with admitting the limits of your knowledge. "I don't know" is a perfectly reasonable answer, and we shouldn't jump to conclusions if we don't have much knowledge on a topic.

Open-mindedness, intellectual curiosity, rigorousness and humility can help you not fall for false beliefs and keep an open mind to new facts that might contradict what you previously believed.

Read more. Go to the local library and read.

Spread misinformation rampantly to lower the average IQ, thus making you smarter by comparison.

Learn some critical thinking to start. If it's illusions you're trying to escape, learn what aspects of human nature those illusions are preying on to sustain them.

By illusions you mean misinformation or bad arguments? Learn the logical fallacies and look for them. It's astounding how people use them unknowingly or even knowingly. Watch videos on deconstructing arguments.

Have you tried watching Rick and Morty yet?

I found these websites good for learning about identifying faults in my thinking https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/strawman https://yourbias.is/in-group-bias

Your replies show you are too deeply involved in illusions to ever escape and make yourself smarter...

Technically everything your eyes tell you is an illusion. "You" are locked inside a cage made of calcined organic matrix, with no companion except a constant static snow trunked in from an imperfect and glitchy network of myecin tendrils that like to oscillate between ionic saturation states all awash with bioelectric spikes from a manifold of receptors all ramified through a knot of more myecin capable of synthesizing prior signal patterns in response to stochastically generated input patterns.

But digital watches are still pretty cool, hey?

Philosophy, read maybe plato the republic, maybe kant critique of pure reason and go from there.

Read read read

i don’t believe it’s possible to fully escape illusion, but you can minimize it by learning about the subjects you’re interested in. Still you will always be biased based on what you know and what you want to believe. Approaching the problem from a neutral perspective then reading about from different authors will give you ideas that can help you form an opinion, but again it will always be limited to what you know, it’s natural. So the more you know the better decision you make. I heard a law professor said “i know too much to make a decision, tell me what the end goal is and I’ll get there” meaning there are enough arguments to arrive at any conclusion. good luck.

Hang out with folks who are at least nominally more intelligent than you. Never be the most ignorant person in the room, nor the most intelligent / expressive.

That holds pretty true no matter your industry - and if you can identify the actual thought leaders in adjacent biz areas, so much the better.

Read. As much as possible. And then think about it, find the takeaways. The takeaways will be crap at first, but will improve rapidly.

Know your limits, but also know your cheat codes. Use the latter to gain admission to progressively more challenging circles.

There is no one on earth, and no series of events, from whom/which you cannot learn something. It might not be life changing, but it’s still worth searching for the worthwhile content.

read in general, play mental games like suduko and doing crosswords (mix up from different authors as if you do the same author every day you learn more their preferences). in your reading do some for pleasure like fiction you like but read philosophy and if you have not learned it work on elementary logic.