I tried it, but at the time I found it very hard to focus. it’s a lot like working at home – you need to be very good at creating your own routines and structure, and managing your own projects.
If that’s not you, develops those skills first. Getting work where you train those skills is a good approach.
I doubt straight men innately dislike kissing or showing affection toward men.
I went to a kissing workshop. (Things escalated slowly and nothing was mandatory.) I was turned off more quickly than I expected by kisses with guys—just by a very short closed-mouth kiss.
(I like hugs though.)
I’m certain I’d also benefit from the bisexual pill, and my aversion to the idea is irrational.
“I hate spinach, which is a good thing because if I liked it I’d eat it all the time, and I hate the stuff.”—half remembered second-hand quote, apparently from the 19th C(?)
It only increases your chances by the percentage of people of your gender who are open to same-sex encounters.
But the other people of your gender are also restricted to this smaller pool in their search for a pairing, giving you a better chance of being accepted/selected by a particular individual that you’re attracted to (assuming you spend significant time around people in this pool). So this factor may not have a big effect.
The FB event: https://www.facebook.com/events/739163932864385/
The 2014 camp was interesting, fun, great for meeting new people, and a good time was had by many (hopefully all).
And there’s also no discernible difference between seeing a psychotherapist and spending the same amount of time talking to a randomly selected college professor from another field. It’s just talking to anyone that helps you get better, apparently.
Unless this has been tested for random people other than just college professors, there’s a stronger case for saying that talking to a person of a certain intelligence and education level helps you get better. And I suspect that it doesn’t generalise to “talking to anyone that helps you get better” but I haven’t looked into it.
(I’m sure there are other factors, but I’m just going by what was said about college professors.)
That now redirects to a porn site.
Choose music that you’re very familiar with it and put it on a loop. New music is much more likely to distract you. (Tip from Matt Mullenweg, interviewed by Tim Ferriss.) That might be more significant than the type of music, although we’d expect instrumental music to be less distracting. I know a health professional (who has ADHD, and works with people who have ADHD) who finds that AC/DC is best for helping to concentrate. I’m not an AC/DC fan, but I’ll try some fast heavy music one day when I need an extra concentration boost, and see if it works.
So it’s better to view our taste buds as an adaptation fitted to ancestral conditions that included near-starvation and apples and roast rabbit,
And those apples were crab apples. I doubt that many of our distant ancestors would have experienced anything like our bred-for-sweetness fruit varieties on a regular basis. Those new fruit varieties are probably still very healthy – I’m just further highlighting the enormous gulf between what our ancestors ate and the concentrated sugar-fat-salt concoctions that we eat.
An ergonomic mouse is good too. Looking up vertical mouse on eBay shows the kind of thing I mean. Reduces twisting by the forearm. That was a good investment for me, but then I suffer from RSI.
He’s a very effective snake oil salesman.
Cool—I’ll tell some of my Indonesian friends. I might need to visit Indo in 2015, so I’ll look you up then.
People’s judgements on music often amount to “The pattern in which your brain releases dopamine in response to music is inferior to mine.”
I can definitely imagine coming to love Beethoven’s Fugue (which I played in the background while reading this post & comments) because—it’s not fundamentally different to other pieces I’ve come to love. But I seem to be a neophile in many ways, and I’ve been exposed to certain types of music, so I count tastes as personal and I find the Youtube comments you quote to be ridiculous.
Re repeated exposure: The pieces on an album that start out as my favourites tend to lose much of their appeal before very long, and I might even skip those tracks; pieces that didn’t grab me at first become my favourites and keep their appeal for much longer. (I can only think of one strong exception: As a teenager: I loved Rachmaninov’s 2nd concerto from the first time I heard it, liked it more as I listened to it more, and continued to love it for years. I still play it in my head to get rid of an earworm.)
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Another option: Saving to “Pocket” (getpocket.com) and reading there works on Android, and presumably on other platforms.
4.7 years later… Did you ever read them?
The wiki is down. Was the content saved?
Post 1 (http://habitua.net/how-to-use-rewards-to-defeat-procrastination/) : What’s the goal of this post? I don’t think it’s wrong but I can’t see the intention behind it.
The intention was to give some direction as to the kinds of plans that can be effective in overcoming procrastination. I can see that more detailed suggestions would be helpful, and I’ll look at that in future posts. I’m deliberately keeping posts short, so I actually get them done and posted.
The post about advertising also seems to lack a clear goal.
I thought that was an interesting insight into communication and the nature of advertising, but you’re right—the goal was not so clear.
I’m looking for feedback on my blog drafts & posts—I’m not writing for specifically rationalist audience, but I’d appreciate intelligent feedback on accuracy, additional ideas to possibly include, as well as feedback on how I communicate.
Where is a good place to get such feedback? LessWrong has a lot of the right sort of people, but posting lots of draft posts to the open thread may not be popular.
My blog is Habitua—it’s on self-improvement, attempting to be evidence-based as much as practicable.
That’s about your family’s attitudes, rather than about anything intrinsic to the act.
I would be surprised and possibly grossed out if this happened in my own family, but that would be the moral equivalent of a vistigial limb,* something to get past.
*I was going to say appendix, but the appendix does actually have a function).