TL;DR Whom am I speaking to? Who is this going to help? My Practical Experience My Mind Dump. List of cognitive biases to study from Scott Adams’ book “How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big” Ambiguity effect In one sentence: We prefer options that are known/familiar to us The ambiguity effect is a cognitive bias that describes how we tend to avoid options that we consider to be ambiguous or to be missing information....
TL;DR Whom am I speaking to? Who is this going to help? My Practical Experience Do everything, and learn as much as you can, so you can distil what you know into the most important 20% the returns the 80% of the results. I’d imagine that salsa dancing is very comlicated, but what if I became so good at it, that I could teach someone how to dance is just 10minutes?...
TL;DR In a world where data is abundant to support any narrative, why not choose the narrative where where you win? Whom am I speaking to? Who is this going to help? Mr. Pessimistic, who has no friends and is not liked by anyone. My Practical Experience I think I’ve unlocked another key to using my mind more effectively. It’s all starting to come together now. What I was doing before In one of my previous posts, I discussed how humor is basically a life hack....
TL;DR I was shy to enter this boxing club; now I have signed up for my first class next week. Whom am I speaking to? Who is this going to help? The “nice guy” who’s good, wholesome, and not capable of being dangerous enough to be courageous. My Practical Experience Here are my first impressions of the boxing place I visited. Upon arriving at the entrance, the place looked more like a warehouse than a “suburban” gym....
TL;DR People don’t like me because I’m an arrogant piece of shit–but that’s okay because I’m actively re-branding myself as someone who everyone wants to be around. Whom am I speaking to? Who is this going to help? My old, prude, arrogant, egoistic self who is really insecure about being judge my other people for exploring curiosity. My Practical Experience I’m a recovering prude. Let me explain. Growing up, I would often label people in school between two camps: intellectually-inferior, and good....
Realization “We become what we habitually think about” is a true statement. But the idea of “choose your thoughts, choose your reality”, needs an update. Because the more I think about it, the more I realize that it’s the mislabeling of things that fuck us over. TM + CBT have really helped me with this. So, a more ACCURATE thinking is ““choose your LABELS, choose your reality” Of course, seek realistic and wholistic labels, but at least something that gives truth to why things are the way they are....