I did a Mixergy interview so bad they didn't even release it

I would love for the author to delve more into what made the interview so bad, with specific examples.

I tried a bit of everything, and I did it all at the same time, so it's hard to pin down causation. The only thing that had to happen was to shift my diet away from being primarily composed of alcohol, coffee, and tabasco. Apart from that, a high-end probiotic thing may well have helped, and a good chiro/nutritionist acted as a sort of accountability coach to keep me going.

Also, getting serious about reining in the drinking acted as an anchor habit that led to a bunch of other positive lifestyle changes. (I still probably drink far more than almost anyone would consider acceptable, but it's down to a level where my body appears able to keep up. So still a work in progress, I guess, but at least my energy is back up.)

@robfitz, not related to the content as I couldn't get to that on Firefox 95

Opening the website returns:

NS_ERROR_NET_INADEQUATE_SECURITY

By a cursory glance, it looks like some misconfiguration (supporting HTTP/2, but no presenting TLS1.2 at the same time .. even that it looks available).

SSL Labs results may help you diagnose [1]

[1] https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=www.robfitz.c...

Journalling. If you keep a record of your thoughts and feelings you can always go back and review them.

I've been working on some personal issues for a little while now and sometimes it's hard to tell where I've made progress due to this exact retroactive-perspective-shifting, until I go back and read my journal from those earlier times and the contrast becomes clear.

>What are some ways to break out of this mode

I would guess the best answer here is to write down everything. Keep a journal. Write down events as soon after they happen as possible, write down your thoughts about the event, write down your emotions and connect them to the events that generate them.

I think a somewhat decent mental model here is to think of our brains as write-only memory. Every time you remember something, your brain rewrites the memory. You, on some level, are experiencing the event/thought/feeling again. When you think about what you felt during a past event, you are mostly feeling your current reaction to the memory, and not as much tapping into past feelings as you might think.

One broad example of this is what people call "type 2 fun." This describes events that may not produce positive emotions in the moment, usually some kind of hard physical tasks/achievements. But, looking back, these events produce positive emotions when remembering the event and the accomplishment.