Did my best to get Cat to come to Vienna. Applied for C-FAR minicamp. Publicly precommited to doing 4 papers or wouldn’t go out on weekend. Have started using music when doing non-important work (raises happiness, minimal work impact). Started using rewards to make myself do work (after a bout of work watch a short tv series or something).
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Is this really want went trough your mind or is it a rationalization?
I can’t understand. LW is obviously important to you. You know this is a touchy topic. Why not provide sources (who’s burden is it if not the author’s?) and turn this into an amazing post? If you have sources for everything that you claim this is an amazing work. If not, it’s worse than useless: it imprints wrong thoughts that will hang around for a while.
I don’t understand.
Agreed. Downvoted original post because of lack of sources.
Maybe this should be in the Open Thread?
Nonetheless, I feel that if you can’t explain it without using jargon, that gives some evidence for you not understanding it in the first place (whatever it is).
What is your goal? Why would get a PhD help you meet it? Is your goal to have a PhD?
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Thank you, edited.
As did shimnux, I started a blog to much of the same effects.
I also got into habitrpg, this has been, easily, the best thing I ever did to install new habit; highly recommended.
I’d like to know why this is getting downvoted. I think you are making a serious point in a short, funny manner. I actually preferred this to your longer posts.
I’ve seen insane-er stuff argued seriously before.
Upvoted.
Thank you, this is my experience—it feels stressful. Updated prob.
I did try it once. It was less bad than german but still bad: I memorized, but only after actually reading up on them I knew what I meant—leading me to think that I ended up not saving time in the long run, for if I had written them myself my memorization would probably be better.
I will try it again. For science.
Thank you all for your responses. I’ve updated my estimate that this is just a me-problem.
benthamite, have you had success using decks you have not built yourself?
I once tried with the list of cognitive biases, and again with german and it was an atrocious experience. I thought then that I was violating rule 2:
“Learn before you memorize Before you proceed with memorizing individual facts and rules, you need to build an overall picture of the learned knowledge. Only when individual pieces fit to build a single coherent structure, will you be able to dramatically reduce the learning time. This is closely related to the problem comprehension mentioned in Rule 1: Do not learn if you do not understand. A single separated piece of your picture is like a single German word in the textbook of history.
Do not start from memorizing loosely related facts! First read a chapter in your book that puts them together (e.g. the principles of the internal combustion engine). Only then proceed with learning using individual questions and answers (e.g. What moves the pistons in the internal combustion engine?), etc.”
Maybe it is possible to study the material by yourself first and then use someone else’s deck—experience will tell, for me it doesn’t work. Then again I can imagine that different people build different models of the same information and thus require different cards.
If you had success (or not) using other’s people decks please reply (also mention which subject—I predict something like multiplication tables or such that is just “hard memorizing” and little understanding is easier)
Upvoted, but it felt more like a lament than a stab at a problem. Not that there is anything wrong with that.
I expected a pointing at a solution. Nothing came. I can imagine some books have higher priority than others. I can also imagine that some insights have higher priority than others (in my case, more than 20 insights a day get forgotten, so I have to put an upper bound on how much I learn per day).
Looking at what people you already consider bright recommend most highly might be a way.
Rationalists should win, I feel your pain, but sketch me a solution.
Please pm me your email and I will forward it, no idea why it didn’t go trough.
Please pm me your email and I will forward it, no idea why it didn’t go trough.
http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/110/9/8/Good_News_Everyone_by_martynasx.jpg
Did it work for you?