(Self review) I stand by this post, I think it’s an important idea, I think not enough people are using this technique, and this adds nothing but a different way of writing something that was already in the rationalist canon.
If you do not sometimes stop, start a timer, think for five minutes, come to a conclusion and then move on, I believe you are missing an important mental skill and you should fix that. This skill helps me. I have observed some of the most effective people I know personally use this skill. You should at least try it.
You know what followup work I want? I want a dozen different modes of this idea. A youtube video. The audio version is great. The fictional version in HPMOR is great. Can we get a goofy videogame that makes you use the pause button well? (I tried to get at this with Troll Timers. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/fCg3pLZqthXsGznHP/troll-timers) I should try rewriting this as a rousing speech. It’d be cool to have it as a catchy tune. Maybe someone should tiktok the sucker.
I’m not saying it’s the most important idea! Just, you know, it’s broadly applicable and any mistake you make by not thinking for five minutes when you are not actually under time pressure is a stupid mistake that makes beisutsukai-san disappointed in you.
If the Best Of LessWrong collection is just for things that add to the conversation, this post doesn’t belong there. I’d give it a small positive vote if I could vote on it. On the other hand if nobody else has gotten a post about this concept into the Best Of LessWrong collection yet, and some newcomers might just read the Best Of LessWrong posts, then I do kinda want something on this topic to get in there.
(Self review) I stand by this post, I think it’s an important idea, I think not enough people are using this technique, and this adds nothing but a different way of writing something that was already in the rationalist canon.
If you do not sometimes stop, start a timer, think for five minutes, come to a conclusion and then move on, I believe you are missing an important mental skill and you should fix that. This skill helps me. I have observed some of the most effective people I know personally use this skill. You should at least try it.
You know what followup work I want? I want a dozen different modes of this idea. A youtube video. The audio version is great. The fictional version in HPMOR is great. Can we get a goofy videogame that makes you use the pause button well? (I tried to get at this with Troll Timers. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/fCg3pLZqthXsGznHP/troll-timers) I should try rewriting this as a rousing speech. It’d be cool to have it as a catchy tune. Maybe someone should tiktok the sucker.
I’m not saying it’s the most important idea! Just, you know, it’s broadly applicable and any mistake you make by not thinking for five minutes when you are not actually under time pressure is a stupid mistake that makes beisutsukai-san disappointed in you.
If the Best Of LessWrong collection is just for things that add to the conversation, this post doesn’t belong there. I’d give it a small positive vote if I could vote on it. On the other hand if nobody else has gotten a post about this concept into the Best Of LessWrong collection yet, and some newcomers might just read the Best Of LessWrong posts, then I do kinda want something on this topic to get in there.