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Soothsilver comments on Positivity Thread :) - Less Wrong Discussion

24 Post author: Viliam 08 April 2016 09:34PM

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Comment author: Soothsilver 08 April 2016 10:56:06PM 7 points [-]

It's old news but I recently came across this article and found it quite cheerful.

http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/01/10/slow-but-steady/

Comment author: Viliam 09 April 2016 08:02:53AM *  3 points [-]

Yeah, good visualizations allow us to see the slow but steady improvements.

Maybe we should do the same things in our personal lives, e.g. to make a 1m long timescale of our lives, and put there all our successes (such as "learned to walk", "learned to talk", "completed school", "found a boyfriend/girlfriend", "started a blog", "composed a song", "had 10000 readers on the blog", etc.), and suddenly we would realize how awesome we are!

Comment author: chaosmage 16 April 2016 01:52:40PM 0 points [-]

You mean something like this?