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I'm heavily interested in instrumental rationality -- that is, optimizing my life by 1) increasing my enjoyment per moment, 2) increasing the quantity of moments, and 3) decreasing the cost per moment.
I've taught myself a decent amount and improved my life with: personal finance, nutrition, exercise, interpersonal communication, basic item maintenance, music recording and production, sexuality and relationships, and cooking.
If you're interested in possible ways of improving your life, I might have direct experience to help, and I can probably point you in the right direction if not. Feel free to ask me anything!
Do you think you had a high starting conscientiousness level or did you have to develop it?
What do you mean about increasing enjoyment of moments? I guess some sort of mindfulness?
Can you expand on sexuality and relationships?
What techniques do you have for determining goals as opposed to fulfilling them? E.g. if I have no particular sense of what I want how would I determine it?
Have you become exceptionally good at anything, and if so what and how?
Improving skills is about deliberate practice, objective analysis (either by yourself or a teacher), and evaluating and fixing your weaknesses. I've been able to improve every skill I've tried with this method.
I consider myself exceptionally good at creating metal music (playing guitar, vocals, recording/mixing/production), and I'm getting pretty good at weight lifting. I am beginning to develop the skill of computer programming, which I expect to take to that level.
For most non-career and non-pleasure skills, I generally stop at the point of diminishing returns. I've learned to cook for myself better than most restaurants, but I don't care to invest the time and energy to become a real artist with it.
Do you use any quantitative self tools for this? If so, could you elaborate on your data tracking/analysis processes?
Yes, but incompletely. I'll track things precisely until a habit is established, at which point I stop tracking everything and check-in every once in a while to make sure I'm still on track. Some things I keep track of consistently, such as my budget, weight lifting numbers, bodyweight, etc.
The process is different for different things. I usually start with a Google Drive spreadsheet, and then experiment with other more specific apps if they're better than spreadsheets (they rarely are). If you have any more specific questions, I'd be glad to answer them.