Epistemic status: An idea I had a few days ago and shared with two or three friends. Suppose you want to install a new habit. For example, gratitude journaling. You might try to give it a go, by pledging to write down 3 things you are grateful for every day...
Epistemic Status: I thought about and wrote each paragraph in 10 minutes total, with slight editing afterwards. I hope I'm not too late to the party! I wrote this up quite a few months ago and found that I delayed indefinitely editing it before publication. I decided it's probably best...
Epistemic status: An idea I had a few days ago and shared with two or three friends.
Suppose you want to install a new habit. For example, gratitude journaling.
You might try to give it a go, by pledging to write down 3 things you are grateful for every day right before you go to sleep.
After a few days, you start skipping out on the habit, and after a month it's completely gone.
You aren't too worried, remembering to beware of other(s)-optimizing (you), you say to yourself that maybe this thing just isn't for you.
A few weeks later, you get to hear again about how gratitude journaling is good so you give it another shot,... (read 470 more words →)
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"It doesn't look that big, though I'm including starting steps of longer term tasks. Hmm, this doesn't feel that bad, thought maybe that's the endorphins from deciding to test this talking. "
What do you mean by including starting steps?
Epistemic Status: I thought about and wrote each paragraph in 10 minutes total, with slight editing afterwards.
I hope I'm not too late to the party!
I wrote this up quite a few months ago and found that I delayed indefinitely editing it before publication. I decided it's probably best to post a not-maximally-edited version of my final exam.
This is my first post on LessWrong, and any remarks, notes, requests for revisions, and so on will be welcome!
When using a calendar or task management app, one can often judge quickly the length of a task by it's physical size on the screen. This is a useful feature of the... (read 747 more words →)
I want to praise your clear and practical exercises, which quite literally ask me to solve problems I know have been bothering me and haven't done anything about. I also want to praise you on the common real life personal examples. They help me feel and connect to the ideas and solutions as I see a little bit of myself in the examples.
Something I'd like to criticize you about is the lack an "Epistemic status" header for your blog posts. I like when people do it. Another criticism is the insufficient (for me) reassurance that complicated techniques (like focusing) can't be mastered in a single blog post. I know this seems obvious in retrospect, but I felt bad about it in the real time.
Thank you!