Group Rationality Diary, June 16-30

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This is the public group instrumental rationality diary for June 16-30.

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: June 1-15

Next diary: July 1-15

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This is the public group instrumental rationality diary for June 16-30.

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: June 1-15

Next diary: July 1-15

Rationality diaries archive

Changing emotional responses: Solstice ritual 2014. Celebrating communal contribution. Lots of singing. Actually made something concrete to share with people, which felt good. Not sure about long term effects though. Kind of makes me want to start doing random gifts for people, just for an excuse to start crafting things again..

*deleted my "1 hour of fanfiction" reward. I failed at using it as a self-limiter.

*rearranged some of my weekly tasks, assuming that after work and food and sleep and daily prep I have 5 or 6 spare pomos a day. They're more evenly distributed through my week now.

*took a revitalizing potion in Habitrpg. All my dailies and to-do's are set back to neutral value, so the dailies are actually worth clicking and I don't have to look at a discouraging wall of red to-dos.