Another type of card is a “situation/response” card, where the front is some situation you might be in and the back is the response that you want to remember to execute. For example:
You fail at something/Remember that trying and failing is way better than not trying at all, so give yourself a pat on the back
You think you might be overengineering some software you are writing/Do the simplest thing that will work
You are trying to work but not getting anything done/Make a step-by-step plan for how you will proceed, go take a walk, then come back and follow your plan
I have collected a lot of these type of heuristics, if others are interested.
It feels dishonest to share them because I don’t use them myself. I lost a lot of my enthusiasm for life when I got stuck communicating with my computer using voice recognition.
I know you wrote this comment nine years ago, but if you’re still willing to share, I’d love to hear more of these heuristics! I’m hoping to build a deck for doing cognitive-behavioral therapy on myself or something similar, and what you’re talking about has a lot of overlap with that. So please share.
Another type of card is a “situation/response” card, where the front is some situation you might be in and the back is the response that you want to remember to execute. For example:
You fail at something/Remember that trying and failing is way better than not trying at all, so give yourself a pat on the back
You think you might be overengineering some software you are writing/Do the simplest thing that will work
You are trying to work but not getting anything done/Make a step-by-step plan for how you will proceed, go take a walk, then come back and follow your plan
I have collected a lot of these type of heuristics, if others are interested.
It feels dishonest to share them because I don’t use them myself. I lost a lot of my enthusiasm for life when I got stuck communicating with my computer using voice recognition.
I know you wrote this comment nine years ago, but if you’re still willing to share, I’d love to hear more of these heuristics! I’m hoping to build a deck for doing cognitive-behavioral therapy on myself or something similar, and what you’re talking about has a lot of overlap with that. So please share.