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Another good idea that will change your life is to keep things short and simple. 51 ideas is like 43 too many :)
Totally, I came hoping for about 3-8 ideas that might change my life too. I can't be changing my life 51 times in one reading!
> Penny Problem Gap: Economists assume demand is linear, but people’s behavior totally changes once an action costs money. If the inventors of the Internet had known about it, spam wouldn’t be such a problem. If sending an email cost you $0.001, there’d be way less spam. Freakonomics argues it can have the opposite effect, of "licensing" undesired behavior by those who can afford to pay the cost. Something to think a…
Anecdotally a similar effect happened with a friend’s childcare center. They were sick of parents showing up late to pick their kids up so they instituted a penalty of $x for every minute a parent was late. More parents ended up being late because they felt less guilty knowing they could just pay the penalty. The social pressure to be on time was replaced by a financial one.
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How do you get past the feeling that nothing you do actually matters?
Can I ask where you're coming from with this question? (just want to understand the context before I answer)
To the person talking about therapy, the above also applies to that.
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What's the point? What one person needs at one point in their life is very unlikely to be what another person needs - it might appear banal or unintelligible to another.
It would be interesting to hear grandparent’s perspective. We learn from the experience of others. Otherwise, schools, best practices, or forums like HN would be completely useless.
Once this idea sinks in, it generally promotes empathy because you stop judging others by the "golden rule" (do unto others as you would have them do unto you), and start thinking about the (perfectly sane and logical) mindset and circumstance that could lead to a particular action or idea. Once you go deep enough you start to recognize the patterns within patterns.
It allows you to take others as they are, rather than as an imperfect you.
Sorry for being rude. The above article sounds like written by GPT. Also, the author's tweets look like this: "If you really wanna learn about somebody, skip the 60 minute interview and have them drive you through New York City for 15 minutes." And then this person calls himself "The Writing Guy" on his twitter bio and unironically sells a writing course.
ChatGPT/OpenAIs detector does not agree: “The classifier considers the text to be very unlikely AI-generated.” I pasted first half of the article into it. https://platform.openai.com/ai-text-classifier
Sorry for being rude. The above article sounds like written by GPT. Also, the author's tweets look like this: "If you really wanna learn about somebody, skip the 60 minute interview and have them drive you through New York City for 15 minutes." And then this person calls himself "The Writing Guy" on his twitter bio and unironically sells a writing course.
I'm struggling to see the connection you are seeing, can you clarify? Are the ideas mentioned worth less because you found a potential way to discredit the person listing them?
One idea that changed my life is stop believing that other people have changed their lives based on ideas. The only way of change is by habit.
It takes about 6 weeks of repetition to establish a habit. With 9 such intervals a year, and 90 in a decade, I think given how few people apply they could be forgiven for referring to the few which stick as ideas rather than habituation? The idea is the trigger. Doing it, to achieve lasting change requires habit forming.
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I actually changed my mind based on some simple ideas. Carol Dweck wrote a book called Mindset, which talks about two mindsets: a fixed mindset and a growth mindset. The idea is super simple, and you don't even need to read the book to know what it is. But just knowing that idea changed my entire motivation to do things, and now I believe that even if I'm not talented at something, I can get surprisingly far. (for in…
How do you get past the feeling that nothing you do actually matters?
Oh, and head up; you're going to suffer anyway, so make sure to maximize how much of it is by your own choosing.
We would all benefit from remembering this one > 23. Gall’s Law: A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system.
Incremental approaches are limited. A basic example of this is scaling. A chemical process worked out in a lab cannot be incrementally scaled for effective production with bigger test tubes. The entire production process must be designed again from scratch. Incremental approaches to designing a control system with many if statements will never evolve into a PID controller. Nor will a PID controller be evolved into be…
It's a function of where you start on the graph. Experience and understanding can let you start in a different place on the graph that may be less efficient but have a higher local maximum.
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Can I ask where you're coming from with this question? (just want to understand the context before I answer)
It's something that inevitably pops in my head whenever I try to do something without an immediate benefit. Sometimes I try just for the hell of it to follow through, weeks or months. In the end it's just not fulfilling enough and I lose interest. After doing this for a while, now every time I see one of these 'better yourself' ideas I just think what's the point? But there has to be something else, since you and oth…