This is the public group rationality diary for August 30th - September 12th, 2015. 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.
transferred control of my burgeoning potential criminal enterprise to someone else who can run it as a legitimate, prosocial thing. Many sunk costs and social inhibitions were overcome
identified that fluctuations in my mental state accompany drops in my LessWrong karma. I post crazy when I am crazy. It's a new helpful indicator for me.
identified my interests. My interests are summarisable as the 10 S's: Sex, Sleep, Safety, Sanction, Sanity, Sanitation, Swap, Study, Salad and Stretching. Isn't it odd that I can describe them with 10S's?
started a new diet to cope with gastrointestinal issues
become transparent about my schedule and things I do so I'm accountable and transparent.
*maittaining inbox zero and sms zero with a turnaround of about 1 day. Gotta do that for today just now!
*made progress in networking with potential research collaborators (set up several meetings)
*stopped attending classes (I don't have the attention span to learn in lectures but I go for the social validation and habit)
met a girl, asked her out, got a date
stopped replying to txt messages from girl I kinda like but has issues that would be difficult to surmount
stopped watching those terrible motivational things I used to, or all that junky music!
avoiding female friend who's a total bitch to people are aren't around her (but not me?) and says it's because they probably bitch about us but I think she's wrong
hanging out with this hottie in my classes instead. She's got a boyfriend but she's so cute!
got an appointment with a neuropsychologist
got moved to weekly appointments with psychologist since I was batshit insane over the last week or so (and lost half my LW karma!)
ALMOST decided to give my psychologist the name of this account which would probably be good for my treatment, but extremely shameful to me. Really ambivalent about this one. Could come back to bite me...
*eating healthy, sleeping earlier most days, exercising regularly and being less OCD about toilet seats and used clothes
turned down meeting a friend after he wasted my time the previous day
told a friend I miss her checking up on me and she said it made her day but then she wanted to meet and suddenly know that she's interested in me again I don't want her but said I wanted to meet her anyway even without weird unfair conditions like I used to make
met vice-president of a major political party and he took me contact details down after I jokingly expressed interest in an area related to something I work in. Maybe I'll get a cool policy gig! Or maybe I'll ruin my future because I'm hardcore partisan in the eyes of some now probably (even though I don't really care for ideologies or parties, it's just pragmatic for my personal gain and interests).
I thought you said you had a wife?...