This is the public group rationality diary for February 1-14. Now that you've downvoted it, and you know who you are, please identify and explain yourself.
It's a place to record and chat about it if you have done, or are actively doing, things like:
- Established a useful new habit
- Obtained new evidence that made you change your mind about some belief
- Decided to behave in a different way in some set of situations
- Optimized some part of a common routine or cached behavior
- Consciously changed your emotions or affect with respect to something
- Consciously pursued new valuable information about something that could make a big difference in your life
- Learned something new about your beliefs, behavior, or life that surprised you
- Tried doing any of the above and failed
Or anything else interesting which you want to share, so that other people can think about it, and perhaps be inspired to take action themselves. Try to include enough details so that everyone can use each other's experiences to learn about what tends to work out, and what doesn't tend to work out.
Thanks to cata for starting the Group Rationality Diary posts, and to commenters for participating.
Previous diary: January 16-31
I went to the emergency room instead of trying to just last out a chest pain + allergic reaction at home like I have in the past.
I used the time travel technique from HPMOR. Blurb at the bottom.
Pro: Still alive
Con: Really hard to do in moments of crises; I was only able to do this after about 15 minutes of time spent driving home (and then I U-turned to go to the hospital).
Blurb:
He'd wished then to fall back just a few minutes in time and change something, anything before it was too late...
And then it had turned out to not be too late after all.
Wish granted.
You couldn't change history. But you could get it right to start with. Do something differently the first time around.
Wow, that's rough. I'm glad you were able to get help in time.