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Dogs make great thinking companions and need you to think deeply three times a day!!
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> Often people just want the best answer, or the truth. most people want the most convenient, easiest answer that conforms to their own confirmation biases.
Getting confirmation on a confirmation bias releases pleasant hormones and tends to be addictive. (is this true?)
It requires less mental energy to slot new information into an existing framework of beliefs than to consider alternative ways for the information to fit.
We don't question our entire belief system with every new piece of information; that would be mentally exhausting.
I live in a wonderfully walkable tiny university town. I let my driver’s license expire a year ago and walk everywhere. My productivity went up noticeably. Interesting fact: 8 miles away is another walkable, extra hilly, tiny university town. So I tried something crazy. I bought out Tue & Thu 9am morning massage sessions from my favorite therapist, for two months in advance, in the OTHER college town. It’s a 3 hour w…
Why is that crazy?
I live in a wonderfully walkable tiny university town. I let my driver’s license expire a year ago and walk everywhere. My productivity went up noticeably. Interesting fact: 8 miles away is another walkable, extra hilly, tiny university town. So I tried something crazy. I bought out Tue & Thu 9am morning massage sessions from my favorite therapist, for two months in advance, in the OTHER college town. It’s a 3 hour w…
If you keep it up, you might get faster and then maybe your long walk to get a massage becomes more sustainable, perhaps even in winter.
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Why is that crazy?
When you feel pressure to get things done, committing 6 hours to just walking seems like a crazily inefficient use of time if all you want is exercise. Very interesting though.
> If I had 8 hours to chop down a tree, I would spend 6 of those hours sharpening my axe.