I recently listened to the podcast Life Kit on NPR in which Dr. Anna Lembke said that going cold turkey from an addiction (if that is safe) is an effective way of reorganizing the brain. She said this is true because our brains have evolved in environments with much scarcer resources than we have today and so are being overloaded with too much dopamine and pleasure by everything we have around us nowadays.
Daydreaming itself may not be counterproductive. Daydreaming can be a way to adaptively take a break. It may enable more productive work by avoiding burnout.
I constantly feel attuned to how well my time is being spent. Because there are so many things to keep track of during the day, and I feel my consciousness is not at its peak all day, I apprehend misuses of my time snowballing out of my control.
Spotting an invisible mistake might be more advantageous than realizing a visible mistake because spotting an invisible mistake entails intrinsic motivation, while realizing a visible mistake might entail public pressure which can lessen the effectiveness of outcomes (by involving shame, tendency to conform, etc.).
An invisible mistake that I have done recently is not utilizing a means of doing something that is obvious and the easier/faster/more efficient means.
This post made me think about the idea that we are unknowingly committing a moral catastrophe. Invisible mistakes would seem to me to be what would be the support structure of a moral catastrophe taking place. Because they would be invisible to society, they would have free reign to move society in this or that direction. In that case, focusing on invisible mistakes should probably have much more priority than visible mistakes.
Other invisible mistakes I make are poor planning (which involves a vague vision of my plan which doesn’t account for everything, which can lead to it not turning out exactly as I expected to or failing in some way in the long-term after it is implemented because of factors that became relevant later on), overestimating my endurance for some manual and automatic task (such as driving somewhere) or my ability to tolerate a certain condition (like going without food for a while), and overworking myself at the unintended expense of accuracy.
I recently listened to the podcast Life Kit on NPR in which Dr. Anna Lembke said that going cold turkey from an addiction (if that is safe) is an effective way of reorganizing the brain. She said this is true because our brains have evolved in environments with much scarcer resources than we have today and so are being overloaded with too much dopamine and pleasure by everything we have around us nowadays.
Daydreaming itself may not be counterproductive. Daydreaming can be a way to adaptively take a break. It may enable more productive work by avoiding burnout.
I constantly feel attuned to how well my time is being spent. Because there are so many things to keep track of during the day, and I feel my consciousness is not at its peak all day, I apprehend misuses of my time snowballing out of my control.
Spotting an invisible mistake might be more advantageous than realizing a visible mistake because spotting an invisible mistake entails intrinsic motivation, while realizing a visible mistake might entail public pressure which can lessen the effectiveness of outcomes (by involving shame, tendency to conform, etc.).
An invisible mistake that I have done recently is not utilizing a means of doing something that is obvious and the easier/faster/more efficient means.
This post made me think about the idea that we are unknowingly committing a moral catastrophe. Invisible mistakes would seem to me to be what would be the support structure of a moral catastrophe taking place. Because they would be invisible to society, they would have free reign to move society in this or that direction. In that case, focusing on invisible mistakes should probably have much more priority than visible mistakes.
Other invisible mistakes I make are poor planning (which involves a vague vision of my plan which doesn’t account for everything, which can lead to it not turning out exactly as I expected to or failing in some way in the long-term after it is implemented because of factors that became relevant later on), overestimating my endurance for some manual and automatic task (such as driving somewhere) or my ability to tolerate a certain condition (like going without food for a while), and overworking myself at the unintended expense of accuracy.