Anecdotally speaking, I have avoided caffeine for this reason (as hard as it is to do that these days where I am). It lasts way longer than I want it to, and makes me a little compulsive well into the evening and night even when I take it in the morning. Although my internal reasoning was that I must have some genetic thing that makes caffeine last way longer than it’s supposed to. I also thought there might have been second order effects of alertness that are hard to wind down once they get going.
It’s interesting to read that there was always this alterna...
I've noticed this flaw in my own mind where I'm either skeptical of everybody, or basically trust everybody. If I’m skeptical of everybody I tend to say more false things, and if I basically trust everybody then I’m a lot more open and honest. Importantly, once I’m skeptical of everybody I start checking more and more, trying to verify things I once took on faith or contemplating exactly what I think I know and how I think I know that.
This is something that happens to me when I’ve been successfully lied to, and not so much when someone is lieng to me. Like...
There is the risk that you are the lemon, and selling warranties can also turn into its own lemon market (Analogizing this to insurance markets with high levels of fraud).
Some thoughts. Apologies if any of this is overconfident, trivial or otherwise unhelpful.
"I didn't hear that" when people's low level processing fails to parse words someone said despite being perfectly able to receive the audio. not usually playing fool, in my experience
That’s why I appreciate a “hey” or some other initial phrase before someone starts speaking to me. It gets me ready to parse words. For some people I talk to if I start speaking without that, I’ll mostly get a “what did you say?”.
The few recent times I‘ve gotten sick it’s been when I visited my dad’s kids. I didn’t think about it until now, but I’m going to see if I can meet them in outdoor gatherings instead.