I focus on the body, breathing, omnidirectional attention.
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Ask HN: What are your “brain hacks” that help you manage everyday situations?
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Re: Ask HN: What are your “brain hacks” that help you manage everyday situations?
#302My top 3, in order of how I try to apply them (i.e., if 1 doesn't help, move on to 2, etc.). I learned these all from reading various philosophy works, by the way, so perhaps cognitive hack #1 should be "read books". 1) Suspension of judgement (from Sextus Empiricus, Zhuang Zi, Ecclesiastes): avoid forming an opinion at all about things that are not evident. The way I do this is by thinking through an opposing argume…
Thanks for the bits about eikasia, etc... Never heard about them before. About awareness, thinking of the fact that if someone has formed a perception about something, his perception being wrong or right doesn't change the fact that he has formed a perception and the fact that his perception exists, so there may exist at least some subtle particle of correctness in his perception, ...and this is a clue about something to be discovered and I have to think and analize... Ultimately, Be aware that the example's person perceptions are just perceptions make us aware that all our perceptions are just perceptions. No need even to go to Buda's and others theorie's pointing that everything is result of a chain of happenings, rolling since before dinosaurs and all, cause-and-effect-chain that you are just part and all your perceptions about everything are just result of what the chain has put in you, so ultimately you have no real independent wish and "you" don't even exist as an independent entity, if you consider "you" is your mind with all your perceptions in it.
Re: Ask HN: What are your “brain hacks” that help you manage everyday situations?
#303Listening. Looking at people, with chin down. Agreeing. Letting the other person do all the talking. Never disagree, people don't need convincing. Always smile, even if you wish to carry a dagger in the other hand, hiding it in your back. Appreciate. Suffer fools gladly.
There are several others. For more information read the works for Robert Greene, Machiavelli, Balthazar Gracian and others.
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#304I'm very willing to do the most simple of tasks. My current research involves retyping source code because I think some of the issues in current CS education revolve around the ability to copy and paste everything. Even now, when I'm debugging my CentOS systems, I make an effort to type out the commands I find in StackOverflow. Otherwise, how will I ever learn how to extract a tar file?
Re: Ask HN: What are your “brain hacks” that help you manage everyday situations?
#305Temptation bundling - If there's something that I really don't want to do, that' I'm putting off - I bundle it with something I really do want. As an example - I won't allow myself to take that break and grab that shot of espresso until X thing that I'm working on, that I'm soooooo close to completing, is done.
I call this "first, then."
- First , then .
Re: Ask HN: What are your “brain hacks” that help you manage everyday situations?
#306The attention deconcentration technique developed by Oleg Bakhtiyarov is very easy and efficient. I'm not sure if there are any good practical intros into it available in any language but Russian though (those of you who understand Russian an easily find some introductory videos on YouTube).
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#307i take my own food to work; this makes lunch time shorter and less distracting for me. Also eating out may not be the most healthy thing to do, you never know what stuff they put into the food and how they process it.
(also cooking is fun, not too complicated and a very rewarding activity)
Re: Ask HN: What are your “brain hacks” that help you manage everyday situations?
#308You'll find yourself at a big company and the people up the ladder do what's right for them. Because it's their time. Their time! Up there! Down here, it's our time. It's our time down here.
Re: Ask HN: What are your “brain hacks” that help you manage everyday situations?
#3091. Learn how to say "no."
2. Learn how to say "I was wrong."
3. Learn how to say "I don't know."
4. It is ok to change your mind
By "learn how to" I mean "gracefully and confidently".
Longer version: I have learned to care immensely about what I'm working on but not get stressed. I constantly step back and affirm that most things just aren't a big deal. That gives me clarity of thought and allows me to do really good work and have a lot of fun doing it. No matter what happens, nothing can take away my ability to learn and self improve. Therefore, I will always be ok.
Re: Ask HN: What are your “brain hacks” that help you manage everyday situations?
#310My top 3, in order of how I try to apply them (i.e., if 1 doesn't help, move on to 2, etc.). I learned these all from reading various philosophy works, by the way, so perhaps cognitive hack #1 should be "read books". 1) Suspension of judgement (from Sextus Empiricus, Zhuang Zi, Ecclesiastes): avoid forming an opinion at all about things that are not evident. The way I do this is by thinking through an opposing argume…
0) Keeping one's mouth shut. Trying to not have an opinion until a) having enough information b) only voicing it if it is important. I am trying to spend more time perceiving instead of broadcasting.
I do this too and it works great in personal contexts cause people love sharing their opinions and hearing themselves talk generally speaking.
This is in stark contrast to the workplace where I've experienced that keeping my mouth shut in a meeting to gather my thoughts before contributing a well informed opinion, the loudest person in the room has already spoken a handful of times and left their mark and then continues to speak over people and dominate the conversation for better or worse (usually the latter unless they are a SME).
I'm then forced to revert to speaking ASAP to get a word in so I don't walk away from a meeting being perceived as contributing little cause I was getting enough words.
Maybe it's all in my head cause I'm an introvert and meetings drain my energy. Anyone else experience this? Got any tips?