Group Rationality Diary, February 1-14

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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

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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

Rationality diaries archive

Could you be a bit more detailed? That way everyone can learn from your experience.

Most of it is basically me changing my views and actions and all that. The bottom line is me being the person I want to be, as cliche as that sounds.

My methodology? Read Lesswrong, Overcoming Bias, books, learn from experienced people, try new things etc. I highly recommend LW's search feature, if you search for some words that you're interested in LW's perspective of them, it's very useful. You might also find some forgotten gems, such as: http://lesswrong.com/lw/iri/how_to_become_a_1000_year_old_vampire/

Also, tsuyoku naritai, aka the will to tanscend.

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Group Rationality Diary, February 1-14

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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.

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Group Rationality Diary, February 1-14

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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.

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