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What Is the Most Valuable Thing You Can Learn in One Hour?

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Post by ghaff »

ozim wrote: post #135
ForHackernews wrote: post #5

I will tell you from experience that one cannot learn "cooking" in a single hour, any more than one can learn "music" in an hour.

Meh of course you are not going to be Gordon Ramsey in an hour. To read how to cook rice, get to know when meat is ready (if you buy meat from supermarket you probably can under cook it and still be fine) and how to boil/prepare some vegetables. Then that hour where you read instructions for 10-20 mins, did an experiment that took next 30 mins... Voilà you can now cook the same thing for next couple weeks in only 30…

I would argue that cooking is particularly amenable to being broken down into discrete activities that one can at least take a first pass at in an hour or so. And, for all the stuff in my kitchen, the number of things you need to get started is actually pretty minimal. (In fact, as with many things, you're probably better off keeping it simple at first.)

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Post by maroonblazer »

melling wrote: post #89
ethanbond wrote: post #14

Taking this also as a bit of an Ask HN: Easily the Tiny Habits habit formation regime created by Stanford researcher BJ Fogg. A lot of the addictive design patterns you see in apps like Snapchat, Instagram, etc. are built off his research. Quite nefarious use of psychology for advertising/“engagement”, but the plus side is you can use the same strategies to build habits you want to build. Step 1: Consider the habit y…

The book was released today. https://www.amazon.com/Tiny-Habits-Changes-Change-Everything... I wrote some educational apps for language learning. Are there techniques that I could use to help and motivate my users?

I've read "Atomic Habits" by James Clear and "The Power of Habit" by Charles Duhigg. Does "Tiny Habits" bring anything new to the table? Or is it a reformulation of these other ideas?

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Post by soygul »

amiga_500 wrote: post #145

Watch this 5 times then spend ten minutes passing it on: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gD_dZvPwAj0 Questions in this thread about real estate, "investing" etc. Comprehend it with the above.

thanks. land value tax is one of the great mysteries of life for me. bookmarked it for new-year watching.

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Post by scaryclam »

rtpg wrote: post #125

Kinda weird to say that learning cooking takes an hour. Maybe learning one dish? I guess the nice thing would be to have actual articles that would show some principles in an hour

I think you can do a lot more than a single dish. Learning how to peel common vegetables, boiling a pan of water, baking a potato, boiling/frying an egg, making a really simple tomato sauce and boiling pasta could all be taught in an hour. If you can make a basic pasta + sauce, bake a potato and prep some vegetables you can start cooking lots of other things as the skills are transferable.

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Post by humanrebar »

nordsieck wrote: post #149

IMO, the single most important thing I've ever learned is: try to be effective when you're communicating. I used to feel an obligation to correct other people if they had false beliefs. This was not an endearing trait, and even worse, I was never particularly successful at convincing the other people. One day, I read a passage from "How to make friends and influence people". It said something along the lines of: "The…

> The point of an argument is to convince the other person of something. If what you're doing is not working, then do something else.

That's not the point of most arguments. Most arguments have an audience, and often that audience is also involved in making choices.

If neither your opponent nor your audience is swayed, yeah, you could just be entrenching everyone in an oppositional attitude.

That being said, discussions are typically better than arguments when that is an option.

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Post by OGWhales »

redisman wrote: post #108
mathieutd wrote: post #94

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Do you have any brand to recommend?

I don't use the rubber ones but "flossers" which uses a piece of actual floss. I've found GUM brand to be the sturdiest, some brands fray easily which I hated. These made me go from literally flossing a few times in my life to doing it multiple times a week. Once you get used to the clean feeling you'll feel just like you hadn't brushed your teeth if you don't do it. It went from this very unpleasant finger tournique…

Fraying floss is the worst!

I floss semi-regularly but will go periods of time without flossing due to the annoyance factor. I will try these. Just looked them up and are decently cheap.

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Post by KORraN »

mathieubordere wrote: post #106

using `Ctrl + r` in your shell, I just hope someone reading this doesn't know it yet :-)

Wow, thanks! I knew about

  ## arrow up
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but it works only for beginning of the line. CTRL + R shows results with keyword anywhere within the line and pressing it again shows next result. CTRL + Shift + R goes back one result.

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Post by caseyw »

jakobegger wrote: post #137
jakobegger wrote: post #96

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> one hours is defiantly enough to get to know the main Vim bindings I'm going to do an experiment. I've been struggling with Vim for a long time. I need to leave in about one hour. Instead of wasting time here on HN, I'll now spend an hour learning Vim. I doubt that this will get me very far, but I'll let you know how far I got.

OK, it's been about an hour. I learned the following: - there's a visual mode for selecting text - I can now yank and paste text in normal mode - I learned to use :split and :vsplit to open new files, and ctrl-w to switch between them - I learned a few new navigation commands - I learned that there's a replace mode (R) Definitely useful, and I hope I remember everything the next time I open vim! But I still feel like…

That's all good, but can you quit it? Sorry, had to be cheeky!

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Post by godtoldmetodoit »

shantly wrote: post #86
Insanity wrote: post #68

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Does it count if you lie awake in bed for an hour unable to sleep because of rumination? Because in that case, I'm sure plenty of people do it at some point. But what helps me is taking walks. You're alone with your thoughts, but the act of walking through nature is stimulating for more positive thinking, from my experience anyway.

> Does it count if you lie awake in bed for an hour unable to sleep because of rumination? Because in that case, I'm sure plenty of people do it at some point. Heh, shit, if that counts I "meditate" for an hour or more a couple times a week. It's absolutely horrible. [EDIT] in fact, running with that, most of my life has been a struggle to "meditate" less for the sake of my own health and sanity. I'm way down from th…

I definitely struggle with the same thing, my mind just not wanting to calm down and running through a million ideas.

That is not meditation though. Learning to meditate has helped me a ton in being able to calm my mind down and get to sleep. I'd recommend checking out the Sam Harris Waking Up app, just do it for a few days and see if it clicks.

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