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Post by Mezzie »

jrm4 wrote: post #21
mif wrote: post #11

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.

This is so important. Over the years as someone who's constantly trying new note-taking mind mappy things, interacting with my own thoughts in the past, it took an embarrassingly long time to realize that one of the the fundamental differences between me and the computer is that I require multiple writes. (The other is that graphy mind-mappy tools on the computer are often pointless, because this is the thing that hu…

One of my life-changing ideas was "work with yourself instead of against it when possible." I also require multiple 'writes', so anything important is written or displayed somewhere that I see it multiple times a day.

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Post by BonitaPersona »

ulnarkressty wrote: post #63
wenc wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

I've began to see nihilism as a memetic virus or disease. Once you begin wandering outside the boundaries where you were raised, you almost invariably end up catching the nihils. Some people have few symptoms and can easily continue living meaningful lives. However, other people are heavily affected by them, and become abated and purposeless. We know the symptoms to the nihils.

Then, it's a matter of taking care of yourself and antibodies will begin to build.

I know you are asking about this second part, and I'm sorry I can't give you a straightforward answer (a vaccine, could be said).

The most I can be confident to say is that, as every memetic phenomena, it has a strong subjetive charge. I don't think it is 100% subjective, as humans have more in common that we'd like to admit. And, most likely, the best vaccines for your case are already suggested and proven countless times before. Don't try to reinvent the wheel. Also, be wary of bullshitty alternatives to vaccines/medicine (superfluous and toxic feel-good coaching).

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Post by Ensorceled »

imachine1980_ wrote: post #93
Ensorceled wrote: post #83

I found the biases revealed by some of the examples fascinating, for example: > 16. Russell Conjugation: Journalists often change the meaning of a sentence by replacing one word with a synonym that implies a different meaning. For example, the same person can support an estate tax but oppose a death tax Why did they choose “journalists” when the “death tax” narrative was created by politicians, a much better example…

I need to write a post about why the invisible hands doesn't mean what people think, it means if you kill the king, the system won't collapse because the secret sauce of the society is in the trade of the parts, Adam's Smith write about that people aren't rational and that we need controls over monopolies, most what people think Smith say is what Lucas say.

Yeah, this list is chock full of just plain misunderstanding the idea being quoted ... like doublespeak, Overton Window, Theory of Constraints ...

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Post by ggm »

maccard wrote: post #117
ggm wrote: post #49

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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.

There's actually 52 intervals, they can overlap.

I can't rub my tummy in a circle and put my head precisely because I can't acquire two skills at once. Chewing gum followed walking. But perhaps I could learn to overlap these brief attempts at habit forming. It might take six weeks or so...

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Post by nebula8804 »

jutrewag wrote: post #110
blowski wrote: post #92

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The Overton Window works as a concept when we all talk to each other. But we now have three separate echo chambers - "Left", "Right", "Center" - and they each have their own Overton Window.

I wish there was a sizable center echo chamber, unfortunately there isn’t really one.

Its because the center failed to provide a path that people were satisfied with, hence there was movement away from the center into the fringes. It is entirely the center's fault that they are small. Maybe its just the end state of any sizable society.

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Post by nequo »

irchans wrote: post #53
californical wrote: post #37

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For me personally, I read a blog post about motivation — and a quite silly one at that. I was young and struggled a lot with ADHD and motivation in general. I had a hard time in school because I just physically couldn’t work on an assignment. I’d set it down in front of me and stare at it, unable to start. I had kinda decided that I wasn’t good at those sorts of things, which made it harder. But I found this random p…

Maybe tomorrow I will touch 20 flowers on my daily walk. (50 seems like too much.) Thanks for the idea. I don't know if this is really similar, but maybe it's a bit related. One of my friends and I decided to write 100 words a day for 30 days. Two other friends ended up joining our little project. I kept it up for about 100 days, and it made writing much easier for me. Also, about 2 months ago, I decided to spend abo…

Did you have a rule for choosing the topics to write about, or was that choice also part of the writing process?

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Post by prakhar897 »

punnerud wrote: post #105
prakhar897 wrote: post #104

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

Here's one written by ChatGPT. https://sharegpt.com/c/cjnFahj

2 in the top 5 matches the handwritten article.

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Post by pegasus »

ulnarkressty wrote: post #63
wenc wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Doing nothing does that for me. Seriously. I'm regularly confronted with this feeling, and one thing I found over the years to consistently lift me out of that trough of meaninglessness is meditation. It boils down to "if nothing seems to matter, then just don't do anything". But I have to resist the temptation to just engage in some form of escapism and just sit there with that boredom. Initially it's hard, but after about half an hour to an hour the feeling of boredom and meaninglessness recedes, and my mind becomes more calm, focused and purposeful. It's as simple as that, at least for me.

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Post by thenerdhead »

I hate when authors include their own ideas inside a list of very notable ones while not including the original ideas they used. It comes off so pompous.

Not that we can't stand on the shoulders of giants, but come on. Do you really need to include your unoriginal "ideas" in the same list and claim you came up with it?

"The Never-Ending Now" - Also just known as novelty bias or "shiny object syndrome". Or simply put, neomania. Life has gone through 24 hour news cycles for millennia, this isn't an unique idea although the author has obviously claimed the phrase on the internet already.

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Post by pcthrowaway »

zmxz wrote: post #116
prakhar897 wrote: post #104

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.

Could you explain how's that related to 51 ideas that are listed on the link? 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?

Opportunity cost. We'd do better to discuss something that wasn't GPT vomit. Especially this GPT vomit, which is not very good
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