I want to make a case against having a "growth mindset". And against fighting procrastination. And any other self improvement stuff. - all these things happen at a much lower level than conscious thought. We have approaches to achieving based on genetics, early upbringing, life experiences, etc. No amount of wanting things to be different will make it so. - there are no recipes. There is just doing stuff, some will s…
>I want to make a case against [...] And against fighting procrastination. I agree with a lot of what you wrote but I disagree about not fighting procrastination and thus letting it happen because of subconscious thought. Procrastination leads to a lot of destructive outcomes and unhappiness. E.g. I kept procrastinating the cancellation of my gym club membership that I never used because stopping in person to sign th…
Re: Ask HN: How to develop a growth mindset?
#91Note from an English major: Paradise Lost is not worth reading. Reading the surroundings of the work and the symbolism and themes, Milton's life & the state of English society at the time is entertainment enough for anyone. The work itself has good parts, bit like Shelley's Frankenstein, without literary comment OR an education in literate going back to the Greeks you will not understand it as it was out to be understood. Having read Paradise Lost is a precursor to Frankenstein. Literary circlejerking was the privilege of the rich even at the time.