Group Rationality Diary, March 22 to April 4

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This is the public group rationality diary for March 22 - April 4, 2015. Here's the usual summary of what it's about:

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: February 15-28

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This is the public group rationality diary for March 22 - April 4, 2015. Here's the usual summary of what it's about:

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: February 15-28

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My exercise regimen has turned into a habit. I've been getting strange feelings in my muscles, as though they want to be exercised. Skipping a day makes me feel wrong. Not in a rational sense, but rather I feel on an intuitive level as though something that should have happened didn't. In other words, I've been going to the gym because my body tells me to and it feels weird not to go.

I have had this experience before (~10 years ago). However, the last time I injured myself and ended up taking enough time off for the habit to break. Hopefully it works better this time around.

This gave me the idea to do something similar with my thesis work: to form a sufficiently strong habit of working that failure to do so just feels unnatural.

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Group Rationality Diary, March 22 to April 4

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This is the public group rationality diary for March 22 - April 4, 2015. Here's the usual summary of what it's about:

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Group Rationality Diary, March 22 to April 4

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This is the public group rationality diary for March 22 - April 4, 2015. Here's the usual summary of what it's about:

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