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100 Ways To Live Better — LessWrong (2019)www.lesswrong.com/posts/HJeD6XbMGEfcrx3mD/100-ways-to-live-better/
260 sats \ 2 comments \ @billytheked 19 Apr DIY

Some of these are really great, lots very questionable. Worth a skim at least:

A good one for Stackers to follow:

  1. Find a medium of expression and express yourself publicly every day for three months. If you’re good with words, write 100 Tweets. An artist — post 100 sketches on Instagram. Music/dance person — 100 TikToks.
  1. Write things online, even if you’re not qualified to write them, even if you think that no one will care. I started this thread on a lark, but ended up making friends, practicing creative brainstorming, gaining followers, and coming up with ways to improve my own life.

Other notables: 10, 11, 13, 16, 23, 26, 32, 41, 47, 61, 68, 71, 82, 85, 86, 89, 91, 105,

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100 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 19 Apr

I'm a big admirer of forced repetition. I've watch many people skill-up fast that way. I haven't done it much myself though.

I'm also a fan of forced constraints. This guy does what he calls timed posts:

The way these work is that if it takes me more than one hour to complete the post, an applet that I made deletes everything I’ve written so far and I abandon the post.

Somehow he still manages to write pretty involved posts within that hour, like his recent post of the Flynn Effect.

One of the things I want to get better at is writing and doing things like this is how I imagine I'd do it. Still, I haven't kept the habit longer than a couple days. In many ways my work life is already so strict that I want to break any other rule I try to set for myself.

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50 sats \ 0 replies \ @billytheked OP 19 Apr
applet that I made deletes everything

I'll definitely abandon work that I realize I'm forcing, but this is much more hard-core.

I consider writing on SN to be a deliberate practice (such as Anders Ericsson discusses in Peak), as it's the only place online I've been able to get sound feedback on what I write:

Perhaps the greatest difference between deliberate practice and simple repetition is this: feedback. Anyone who has mastered the art of deliberate practice—whether they are an athlete like Ben Hogan or a writer like Ben Franklin—has developed methods for receiving continual feedback on their performance.
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