I don't care about quality so much yet, I just want to get in the habit of sitting down and filling a blank page start to finish.Īnd now I've posted here about it, which means I might also face getting downvotes and stern looks of disapproval for failing! D-8Įdit: Oh, also increasing the amount of socializing I do every week. I've also got a $10 commitment contract for a month, something I was too convinced of failure to try before. I'm giving myself a release valve each week for the price of a dollar, gifted to a coworker or random stranger. I changed my goal of X minutes per day to 300 words on weekdays and 500 on weekends. It's one I need to get over, both for the sake of school and for the sake of releasing the fanfiction plot bunnies that run around pooping all over the landscape of my mind. Writing is a well-ingrained ugh field for me. I'll probably be fiddling with the questions for a while until I'm happy, so the early days aren't going to have answers to all the questions. When I'm not, it's not a big hassle to open the doc and write a row of Y's / N's / ?'s right before bed. Things like "Did you eat 3 meals, take your vitamins, feed the dogs, do something social, change your mind, try something new, stay up late the night before." The time that needs to be devoted to writing about my day has always been prohibitive in making it a real habit, so I'm just tracking easy things and leaving the comments area for when I'm feeling particularly introspective. My daily examination is now an Excel spreadsheet, in which I mostly answer simple yes-no prompts. (Though it was useful for as long as I could keep it up.) Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results is the definition of insanity, so I'm trying it differently now. I've tried creating a habit of doing daily freewrites every day, which I usually used to examine how my day went, and failed miserably each time. I'm splitting up my daily writing practice and daily journal into entirely separate things. I'm still procrastinating on creating the syllabus. This week I went into a complete slump triggered by a hangover on Monday and a difficult piece of schoolwork with a flexible due date (creating a syllabus). So, not perfect yet, but certainly astonishing progress in my mind. I've logged about 20 hours, in addition to Precalc videos (so probably over 25 hours), and with no calculus training prior to two weeks ago, I got a 53/100 on a Calc 1 final exam. I'm maintaining my habit of studying Calculus on my own using Khan Academy videos, and have a no-money graph up on Beeminder. He said "This guy's dressed to the core, and you're violating the whole dress code!" We got stopped by the bouncer, and he said they had a strict dress code: no athletic shorts, no plain white t-shirts, etc. They asked what happened and I said "I went to San Francisco!"Įven better evidence: I went to a bar with a friend last week, wearing a blazer, black slacks, nice shoes, and a decent T-shirt. Hanging out with two separate friend groups the week after mini-camp, I was complimented repeatedly on how snazzy my new look was and how I was suddenly fashionable. My changes in fashion have been wildly successful. Try to include enough details so that everyone can use each other's experiences to learn about what tends to work out, and what doesn't tend to work out. Or anything else interesting which you want to share, so that other people can think about it, and perhaps be inspired to take action themselves.
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Obtained new evidence that made you change your mind about some belief.
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It's a place to record and chat about it if you have done, or are actively doing, things like: This is the public group instrumental rationality diary for the week of May 28th.