If you imagine that you’re always participating in an prediction-action loop or a general policy cycle as in RL, you can imagine that there are two things that you can spend your energy on, prediction and action.
I think that smart people have better prediction engines yet it also makes action less of a focus in the strategy to minimise future problems (and since one can get stuck in ones head also limits the potential exploration a bit.)
It is quite strange but I’ve found that I’ve gotten more done and become more happy the more “stupid” (how i frame it to myself) my decisions in day to day life are. It’s a bit like a switch and an allowance to do more things because the thing stopping me from doing them is feeling like i did something stupid which completely gets reset by the idea of “oh let’s be stupid for a bit”. This still needs good review afterwards of course to see whether it worked or not but life is so much more nice and happy now which makes me better at work as well!
from the little we interacted, I suspect your case of “more stupid” is just dialling down over-thinking .. while I know people who should definitely NOT dial it any closer to “actually stupid” 😅
If you imagine that you’re always participating in an prediction-action loop or a general policy cycle as in RL, you can imagine that there are two things that you can spend your energy on, prediction and action.
I think that smart people have better prediction engines yet it also makes action less of a focus in the strategy to minimise future problems (and since one can get stuck in ones head also limits the potential exploration a bit.)
It is quite strange but I’ve found that I’ve gotten more done and become more happy the more “stupid” (how i frame it to myself) my decisions in day to day life are. It’s a bit like a switch and an allowance to do more things because the thing stopping me from doing them is feeling like i did something stupid which completely gets reset by the idea of “oh let’s be stupid for a bit”. This still needs good review afterwards of course to see whether it worked or not but life is so much more nice and happy now which makes me better at work as well!
from the little we interacted, I suspect your case of “more stupid” is just dialling down over-thinking .. while I know people who should definitely NOT dial it any closer to “actually stupid” 😅