“And simply being able to notice your emotional state is rarer and more valuable than most people realize. For example, if you’re in fight-or-flight mode, you’re going to feel more compelled to reject arguments that feel like a challenge to your identity.”
Can I have some specific examples that might help illustrate this point?
Excellent work, Reuven, and good work on identifying the failure modes to avoid for next time.
It is absolutely more important to go out and try something, even at the expense of an imperfect lecture, and it was correct to treat this as an experiment. Because you expect to learn the most from the first event, and you went out planned and delivered three presentations in only 5 weeks, you now have significant evidence and experience which will help make whatever happens next more targeted and likely to succeed.
And in case you were too modest to share the lecture itself, the video recording can be found here: http://youtu.be/RumkLgp3Ug0
Not only will I attend, but I precommit to making it more likely that an awesome game of Zendo will happen. This was the first game I played at a LW social meetup and I hope our new attendees enjoy it.
Please RSVP for this event on our meetup.com group: http://www.meetup.com/Melbourne-Less-Wrong/
I’m reposting an edit made by Matt as it didn’t propagate back to this post.
The plan for this month has changed slightly. See http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/i2p/meetup_melbourne_practical_rationality/
More info to come this weekend.
Hey JayDee, awesome to hear from you. Don’t be too harsh on yourself, we would have had fun today, but there’s always next time!
Have we met at a meetup before?
where “it” == me attending.
You can count on it!
This event has been postponed. See http://lesswrong.com/meetups/o7 for replacement event this weekend.
The venue was unable to accomodate our booking so this event might be cancelled. Stay tuned.
For those that don’t know how long they want to stay, the event will officially end at 2am, with most of the themed events taking place between 8pm and 11pm.
We have one double sized lounge room sofa-bed for late revellers.
Hi mira, we would absolutely love to have you! Most of the Melbourne Social events are sober affairs, and the drinking will be only a minor part of the evening for some of the participants. Come early if you want to get to know people while it is quieter.
Bonus upvote if you pre-commit below to a fictional persona.
I’ll be there for sure, and have also invited a friend.