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Published on Aug 10, 2020
You can start something you hate by programming yourself to do something by counting down from 10. Its easy to start counting - more than actually doing the activity. But with enough programming, you'll be able to start things when you reach 0.
Published on Aug 10, 2020
Kurt Vonnegut: All Stories share a collection of similar shapes - that can be shown by plotting the story on an axis of the good vs bad fortune of the protagonist.
Published on Aug 10, 2020
Only when you discover something yourself, will you have proper understanding of it - until then its just a concept you know.
Published on Aug 09, 2020
Procrastination isn’t a inability to manage time, but a way of coping with challenging emotions and negative moods induced by certain tasks — boredom, anxiety, insecurity, frustration, resentment, self-doubt and beyond.
Published on Aug 09, 2020
To be transformed by a book, readers must do more than absorb information: they must bathe in the book’s ideas, relate those ideas to experiences in their lives over weeks and months, try on the book’s Mental Models like a new hat.
Published on Aug 09, 2020
Behavior Triggers(in Behavioral Psychology) fall into these categories...
Published on Aug 09, 2020
If people can't control their own emotion, then they have to start trying to control other people's behavior.
Published on Jul 22, 2020
Motivated Reasoning is a Cognitive bias - we tend to accept/believe more easily and with less scrutiny things we think are correct. If we encounter an idea that we think is wrong, we subject it to more scrutiny - it has a higher bar to clear for us to accept it.
Published on Jul 21, 2020