arstada comments on Bragging Thread February 2015

[arstada]

Congratulations! What are the “right references” that have helped?

[Gunnar_Zarncke]

Thanks to Anki—which I was pointed toward repeatedly by LW and after some time got around to use regularly—I can provide some answers quickly just by looking thru the cards with URLs in my Charisma and Appearance deck:

• The Charisma Myth by Olivia Fox Cabane

• Wisemans 59 seconds

• http://​​lesswrong.com/​​lw/​​jsp/​​political_skills_which_increase_income/​​

• imaginary expertise

There were lots of other references that did improve my life in the last two years. Some of those:

• Relationships/​Parenting

  • Kazdin (post by me but pointed to by tadamsmar).

  • lukeprogs http://​​lesswrong.com/​​lw/​​63i/​​rational_romantic_relationships_part_1/​​

  • MMSL

• Self-Improvement/​Other

  • Seligman’s What You Can Change and What You Can’t (found probably via one of gwerns bibliographies)

  • Lifestyle interventions to increase longevity

  • Procrastination equation

  • The golden rule of habit change

  • steps of rapid skill acquisition

  • Peak-End-Rule

  • The Ten Laws of Shaping

  • breathing techniques

  • Sleep advice

But to a large degree LW also helped by providing a place to think clearly about these topics.

[Raj Thimmiah]

What breathing techniques do you use?

[Gunnar_Zarncke]

• Square breathing. see e.g. here. I did read about it first in On Combat and it works well to reduce pulse levels.

• Breathing meditation from Vipassana, see e.g. here.

• Consciously breathing thru the nose and diaphragmatic breathing

PS. How did you find this old post?