Loved this! And congratulations on your first forum post!
One thing I like to think about with experiments is that they can help motivate you to try new things that seem daunting. Rather than something like: “2023 is going to be my year of going to the gym / going out more / learning French”, you can rephrase it as, “I am going to experiment with going to the gym solidly for the next 4 weeks and then re-evaluate”.
Not only does it make things more concrete and achievable, but there is also no way to “fail”—since all you are doing is testing a hypothesis
Interesting perspective! When I wrote it I thought mostly about saving time, but I also believe it is good for motivation and handling the sunk cost fallacy.
Loved this! And congratulations on your first forum post!
One thing I like to think about with experiments is that they can help motivate you to try new things that seem daunting. Rather than something like: “2023 is going to be my year of going to the gym / going out more / learning French”, you can rephrase it as, “I am going to experiment with going to the gym solidly for the next 4 weeks and then re-evaluate”.
Not only does it make things more concrete and achievable, but there is also no way to “fail”—since all you are doing is testing a hypothesis
Interesting perspective! When I wrote it I thought mostly about saving time, but I also believe it is good for motivation and handling the sunk cost fallacy.