Taking control of your happiness and productivity

2 Peter_McIntyre 23 March 2015 04:35AM

Here I talk about Julian Rotter's locus of control, and the implications of the research on our health, happiness and productivity. 

As per my last article(s), feel free to let me know what you think here, privately, or anonymously

 

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Keep Your Identity Fluid [LINK]

11 Peter_McIntyre 03 March 2015 03:10AM

Building on Graham's Small Identity, here I look at the hazards of identity, and give a suggestion for leveraging it to your advantage, as well as avoiding pitfalls. 

As per my last article, feel free to let me know what you think here, privately, or anonymously

 

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4 Common Prediction Failures and How to Fix Them [LINK]

21 Peter_McIntyre 10 February 2015 01:34AM

A post I wrote on CFAR's blog about the errors we make in hedonic prospecting, based on Gilbert and Wilson's 2007 review article of the topic. Let me know what you think! Reposting from the discussion in case anyone missed it. :) 

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Comment author: Peter_McIntyre 10 February 2015 01:31:31AM 2 points [-]

I'm there.

Comment author: Arran_Stirton 06 February 2015 04:01:27AM 5 points [-]

Nice article, have a karma!

There's a lot of information there, I'd suggest perhaps using this article as the basis for a four part series one each area. The content is non-obvious, so having the extra space to really break down the inferential distance into small steps so that the conclusions are intuitive to non-rationalists would be useful.

(As an aside I suspect that writing for the CFAR blog is right now reasonably high impact for the time investment. Personally I found CFAR's apparent radio-silence since September unnerving and it's possible that it was part of the reason the matching fundraiser struggled. Despite Anna's excellent post on CFAR's progress the lack of activity may have caused people to feel as though CFAR was stagnating and thus be less inclined to part with their money on a System 1 level.)

Comment author: Peter_McIntyre 10 February 2015 01:28:02AM 1 point [-]

Thanks for the feedback, Arran. Re: radio silence, we're working on it and there are a few posts scheduled to be coming out soon. :)

Comment author: Mollie 07 February 2015 02:21:50AM *  2 points [-]

Possible typos.

  1. "And the difference might not that amount to that much." Extra "that"

  2. "Think through each step of what you’ll be doing, and try to avoid relying on your brains associations with whole events." Should be "brain's associations"

  3. "So, how successful, do you predict, you’ll be able to influence your predictions?" I'm having trouble parsing this sentence.

Comment author: Peter_McIntyre 10 February 2015 01:26:31AM 2 points [-]

Fixed. Thanks for taking the time to give feedback. :)

Comment author: [deleted] 05 February 2015 02:08:35AM 6 points [-]

This was great!

I'd love to see the solutions (make it near term, break it down step by step, wait for the correct state) broken out just like the problems were... it almost felt like they were all jammed in at the end.

Comment author: Peter_McIntyre 05 February 2015 02:36:29AM 3 points [-]

Thanks. I'll consider expanding the second part into a whole article. :)

Comment author: wedrifid 03 November 2014 10:58:17AM 29 points [-]

I want to get the most amount of candy with the least amount of walking.

My 9-year-old son on Halloween.

The Valley of Bad Rationality at work again. Improved optimisation skills and strategic awareness applied to increase the amount of candy consumed while reducing physical exercise!

Comment author: Peter_McIntyre 04 February 2015 08:34:31PM 2 points [-]

Well put!