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Learn, Reflect, Apply, Prepare: The Four Daily Practices That Changed How I Live

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Re: Learn, Reflect, Apply, Prepare: The Four Daily Practices That Changed How I Live

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Post by philipallstar »

romesmoke wrote: post #20
philipallstar wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Forgive yourself if you ever behave sub-optimally Of course there's nothing to forgive. There's no need to course-correct against a way that almost no-one will feel. > Tyranny starts with the best of intentions. Placing an irrelevant (and untrue) statement such as this next to the point you're making to imply that it reinforces it is a bit manipulative.

You sound lucky enough to have dodged self-hate. Happy for you. Enjoy your day.

I just don't have the self-confidence to think writing a comment on a website will solve self-hate.

Re: Learn, Reflect, Apply, Prepare: The Four Daily Practices That Changed How I Live

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Post by owebmaster »

romesmoke wrote: post #8
yardshop wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He says something similar at the end of the article: "These four verbs aren’t a productivity system or a self-help formula. Some days I forget one. Other days, one takes over. But when I return to them, they gently reorient me." You may be overreacting with words like "machine" and "tyranny" to an idea simply suggested as a useful and helpful goal.

I wouldn't have commented if the article kept neutral on when to apply its ideas. But the push for daily learning-reflecting-etc is there. Even the segment you're quoting uses days for accounting. You're downplaying one's potential to read something like this on the Internet and try to literally live by it. As for machines and tyranny, they're terms capturing the Zeitgeist all too well.

> As for machines and tyranny, they're terms capturing the Zeitgeist all too well.

What Zeitgeist? The spirit of this age is laziness, overeating, selfness. Everything is too difficult and... the fault of those tyrants!

Re: Learn, Reflect, Apply, Prepare: The Four Daily Practices That Changed How I Live

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Post by owebmaster »

coyotespike wrote: post #15

This was written with ChatGPT, probably 4o specifically - does that not jump out at anyone else? Maybe just me because I throw productivity/spirituality stuff at it all the time and get this kind of language back. "This isn’t a method I’ve perfected. It’s one I’m actively living. And every time I return to it, something shifts. Try it for a week. Not to optimize, but to notice what becomes possible."

The discussion in the thread seems just as fine as any other.

Re: Learn, Reflect, Apply, Prepare: The Four Daily Practices That Changed How I Live

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Post by red369 »

01HNNWZ0MV43FF wrote: post #18
bravesoul2 wrote: post #7

I like this. My view is I aint doing it if it aint a system. A system: change diet to always have at least 3 veg per meal. Do that until you die. A non-system: skip a meal and just eat soup for 30 days and try to drop 10kg. Not diet advice and some people may need to drop weight quickly under doctor advise. But the general idea is to avoid will-power driven outcomes and rely on habit and system driven outcomes. Not c…

3 vegetables per meal? I don't even eat three ingredients for most meals

Does it help that frozen mixed veggies (e.g. peas, corn and carrots) may as well count as one ingredient?

Re: Learn, Reflect, Apply, Prepare: The Four Daily Practices That Changed How I Live

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Post by bravesoul2 »

01HNNWZ0MV43FF wrote: post #18
bravesoul2 wrote: post #7

I like this. My view is I aint doing it if it aint a system. A system: change diet to always have at least 3 veg per meal. Do that until you die. A non-system: skip a meal and just eat soup for 30 days and try to drop 10kg. Not diet advice and some people may need to drop weight quickly under doctor advise. But the general idea is to avoid will-power driven outcomes and rely on habit and system driven outcomes. Not c…

3 vegetables per meal? I don't even eat three ingredients for most meals

Me neither until I changed habit. It just means (a) having the ingredients - in season food boxes help here forcing you to do something with all the food and (b) chop (if needed) / cook (if needed) / eat.

The weird trick here is you dont need to win masterchef or even make cafe standard food. Chuck it all in a frying pan and mix and then eat. I find the mix of flavour from variety makes it quite edible.

If I have to use a skillet AND an oven that's too much work. One appliance max :)

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