efim

Hello!

If that is convenient to you - please write something about your current status regarding the TAPs right now?

It's been ~2 years and I am extremely curious, plus several people might benefit from seeing actual examples and stories.

Taking Hammertime Final Exam by efim

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https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/AxjFRgNStopAc93jB/taking-hammertime-final-examI am attempting to write about:

A helpful framework
An exercise that might generally help in life
A blindspot

It was hard to choose topics between several areas, I also strongly considered ideas that were helpful for me from NVC point of view, but for now all three are related to meditation:

Part of a framework for low-level mental actions: (Intention is before all)

Any action or thought (a mental action) is preceded by some intention that is generated within the mind in reaction to some input.

In that framework doing things looks like this:
1. there is a need or a desire for something
(based on internal or external information input)
2. an intention to get to this... (read 737 more words →)

Replying toDesign 3: Intentionality

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Design 3: Intentionality

**** Challenge. One praise and one criticism of the Hammertime sequence
***** Praise
- Initial framing of daily practice.
Seems convincing and logical, 30 days did not seem like too long.
Relationship with daily Hammertime practice turned to a noticeable supportive state.

Having single course that is supposed to do 10 different items of applied rationality in spaced repetitions manner
is also convincing to try.
Even if in my mind doing "two weeks daily practice of one particular exercise" seems more important - it isn't more alluring

***** Criticism
- I keep stumbling on expecting more specific tasks related to the topic.
I.e in Design: "Now spend 5 minutes picking... (read more)

Replying toDesign 3: Intentionality

efim5y

Design 3: Intentionality

Would you share, what is the state of your practice today?

Making any progress / hardships visible could be helpful to all of those who are thinking of starting out.

Replying toTAPs 3: Reductionism

efim5y

TAPs 3: Reductionism

I really liked your take on planning. I've tried it on the task of "doing self CBT therapy session on my X painful belief" and found that there was another tension point that was helped by rewriting into additional steps.

I didn't really understand your disagreement with 'zeno thing' - I saw it stating that most projects fail before they begin or immediately after the beginning. Regardless of truthfulness of this claim - it doesn't mean that there are no other important failure points that would have been exposed in projects /if we were/ to start them.

But whatever failure points there are - fixing first line of failure still seems really reasonable. And I didn't see any claims that this is all it takes for the project to succeed.

One of the most trivial examples - at the beginning of each separate step I could encounter similar levels of resistance.

Replying toYoda Timers 3: Speed

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Yoda Timers 3: Speed

I feel like I don't fit in really well into existing comments with personal records on speed, since my numbers in these categories are not impressive at all.

I've practiced touch typing, and fairly happy with ~60-70 wpm, though further practice with special symbols would work wonders. I've started using vim (emacs evil mode) several months ago and now know $^@! and numbers much better.

If I am to dig around for something that could be impressive and somewhat related to speed - I've done a *lot* of regular meditation practice over the years and I can see that nowadays I notice distractions much more quickly, often during first second, before the mind had the chance to run away with them from my predetermined point of attention.

Replying toBug Hunt 3

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Bug Hunt 3

Since day 1 some change and progress

Most of all self confidence and self trust were improved by having a commitment to spend 1hr daily at the Hammertime work. Keeping regular progress reduces tension I felt at every thought of undertaking something from self-development
Reignited something that I've lost - light morning exercise:

I have evening TAP of putting yoga mat out before going to bed (+design). And morning TAP of jumping out of bed to have a sip of water and short stretching.

With the idea that I'd add more things to this morning activity

With timers and bug lists I've done several things that were easy one-offs, but I weren't being done. Like small home improvements.
Right now apart from Hammertime I'm working on setting up GTD system, hopeful that I'll make it stick for a while this time. That seems like a very important thing to add

Replying toGoal Factoring

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Goal Factoring

I'll just copy whole tree from org-mode with deliberations on Hammertime factoring with minimal editing

Maybe this will be helpful to someone, and if someone gives me feedback - that could be helpful to me too. Maybe I'm missing something, maybe I'm not going deep enough?

(Is there a way to hide long part of the comment under a spoiler?)

Initial plan: set 60 minute timer for whole daily Hammertime session.

Daily Challenge: 20min Goal Factoring for the Hammertime
** TODO hamertime goal factoring
** Let's go
*** Goal: create feeling of momentum in self-development
**** Goal: use this momentum to keep investing time into self-development, into reaching goals
***** Goal: have stable life, where my needs are being met, with

... (read 382 more words →)

Replying toFocusing

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Focusing

During 5 minute yoga timer I felt rushed to recognize felt senses.

Most of them were floating tensions in the stomach area.

Somehow even though they felt similarly, I almost always had a good idea which of the Big Life Confusions they are, and when I said their approximate name there was a release of tension in the stomach.

To get to more nuanced names I'd need a longer session for each specific life problem, with current set up I've added some of the discoveries to the bug list, and checked that others are already there

-- Not sure this is helpful, even if on-topic --

Replying toCoZE 2

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CoZE 2

One way to see fear would be as a 'feeling' that signifies expectation of failure, possibly grand 'loss' of something dear.

Courage is often usually described as "Doing something even if you're afraid"

Then fear could stem from some internalized beliefs and could be reduced with CBT exercises that examine true roots of the beliefs, fear could be changed by new experiences.

I'd guess CoZE works by creating new automatic assessment of the situation that currently seems dangerous, decreasing fear

What could increase courage?

Probably having clear goals, maybe making them somehow closer in time.

I'd guess creating self-image of a courageous person could help, i.e getting confidence in other areas of life.

I've heard that "leaving no line to retreat" might make people more courageous, but that could be dangerous.

Replying toYoda Timers 2

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Yoda Timers 2

There is a very helpful model of the human:
= a person has needs
there are approximating lists - https://www.cnvc.org/training/resource/needs-inventory
- whenever need is met, we generate pleasant feelings
- whenever need is not met, we generate unpleasant feeling

- paying attention to feelings can help us discover unmet needs, even if we aren't initially conscious of them

= there is an important difference between 'a strategy' and 'a need'
understanding of which can change behavior significantly

"need" is something that can be satisfied in many ways.
model proposes, that if we don't fixate on the strategy and satisfy the need in a different way
it will be just as good.

with clear understanding of these things lots of conflicts... (read more)

Request for advices on small presentation about LW community

efim

11y

In a couple of weeks I'll be giving a small (~50m) presentation about LW community on "social sciences sunday" in Saint Petersburg.

Target audience - students, teachers and young recearcher mostly from social sciences and humanities.

I'm planning to at least mention in passing:

1) rationality: epistemological and practical division

2) virtues of rationality

3) big part of learning is by osmosis

4) about sequences => some ideas I found engaging (but those that are at the same time would be easier to explain in 10 minutes)- definetely about inferential distances and looking wise

maybe mention Milgrams experiments or anecdote about Pain and Gain motivation

5) study hall (I tried it just for a bit), meetups, related projects - CFAR (anything... (read more)

Meetup : Saint Petersburg meetup. Habits and spring.

efim

11y

Discussion article for the meetup : Saint Petersburg meetup. Habits and spring.

WHEN: 18 April 2015 06:00:00PM (+0300)

WHERE: Санкт-Петербург, Невский просп., 54

Place updated Saturday, 18.04.15.

From 18:00 and for about four hours.

It would be in 'Subway' cafe please call me if you don't know me personally and can't find small piece of paper with 'LessWrong' written on it somewhere on the table.

Main theme - habits: - small presentations of articles on this topic and personal stories on things that help with establishing good habits and getting rid of bad ones. - brainstorm for good habit ideas and chosing of the priorities in which everyone would like to implement them.

On desert - bragging thread, where we share our accomplishments. If you are thinking of coming please vote for your expected attendance here: https://vk.com/lwspb

I will be there even if i'll be there alone. For any questions I can be reached by phone +7(911)843-56-44 or social network vk.com/timetravel. Efim.

Discussion article for the meetup : Saint Petersburg meetup. Habits and spring.

Using Doulingo 'Immersion' feature to translate HPMOR

efim

11y

I have been using (alongside other learning tools) Duolingo for more than a year now and with considerable success in learning Spanish language.

I used immersion for learning purposes, but just recently it dawned on me that I could use it to translate HPMOR into different languages while simultaneously promoting it in wide audience.

My first attempt was uploading first untranslated chapter (on hpmor.com listed Spanish translation up to 24th chapter).

Half of it got translated before the upload drowned in new more recent uploads from other people.

First idea was to get 'commercial' license to keep uploaded chapter on top, but right now i'll try to break chapters into smaller chunks, since uploads up to... (read more)

I'm in a really dark place right now, I think I need help.

efim

11y

Hi!
For a while now I've been having troubles with my life.

Today it got worse, likely I will feel better in a week, but problems related to a person I love and searching for the purpose of my life will not be solved, just ignored as I did for a couple of years now.

First thing to do would be to talk it out with friends or therapist (and I am now willing to spend money on it).

But the biggest problem is that they will probably not understand it, I tried to discuss it with a friend and got sympathetic and emotionally helpful advices that nonetheless don't contribute to solution at all.

I know that... (read more)

Meetup : Saint Petersburg, Russia meetup: "Low hanging fruit"

efim

11y

Discussion article for the meetup : Saint Petersburg, Russia meetup: "Low hanging fruit"

WHEN: 28 November 2014 07:00:00PM (+0300)

WHERE: Россия, Санкт-Петербург, Московский пр. 65

We will gather for at least three hours, in the same free venue. There will be small report on chapter of Chialdini's book on self-image and its modifications. Afterward probably discussion and then - exercise. If we'll have enough time we will run a social skill exercise - hot seat. And otherwise chat and have fun. You can reach me by phone - +7-(911)-843-56-44 or mail: efim.wool@gmail.com or vk: vk.com/timetravel, also vk.com/lw_spb

Discussion article for the meetup : Saint Petersburg, Russia meetup: "Low hanging fruit"

Meetup : Saint Petersburg meetup - "with probable lectures"

efim

11y

Discussion article for the meetup : Saint Petersburg meetup - "with probable lectures"

WHEN: 14 November 2014 07:00:00PM (+0300)

WHERE: Россия, Санкт-Петербург, Московский пр. 65

We will gather for at least three hours, in the same free venue.

There is a high probability of report on LW post about drugs and substances, and it is likely to be followed with the discussion.

We will also try to find anything interesting in everyones areas of specialization and arrange small impromptu lectures.

And otherwise chat and have fun.

You can reach me by phone - +7-(911)-843-56-44 or mail: efim.wool@gmail.com or vk: vk.com/timetravel, also vk.com/lw_spb

Discussion article for the meetup : Saint Petersburg meetup - "with probable lectures"

Meetup : Saint Petersburg meetup - "the lonely one"

efim

11y

Discussion article for the meetup : Saint Petersburg meetup - "the lonely one"

WHEN: 31 October 2014 08:00:00PM (+0400)

WHERE: Россия, Санкт-Петербург, Московский пр. 65,

We are resuming our bi-weekly schedule, even if I'm sitting at the meetups all by myself reading math papers!

Now very nice free venue is available thanks to its owner. It's a sports club, directions in the vk group (https://vk.com/c9h13no3ru). Please notify my if it's unavailable for someone without registration.

The plan is to try exercises on lonely dissent (from hpmor) if there is enough people (>=5).

Otherwise - unstructured talk/self-education on topics that are of interest for everyone.

It will last for at least 2 - 2,5 hours. You can reach me by phone - +7-(911)-843-56-44 or mail: efim.wool@gmail.com or vk: vk.com/timetravel.

Efim.

P.S. I will now give meetup different names in advance just for fun.

Discussion article for the meetup : Saint Petersburg meetup - "the lonely one"

Meetup : Saint Petersburg sunday meetup

efim

12y

Discussion article for the meetup : Saint Petersburg sunday meetup

WHEN: 01 March 2014 04:00:00PM (+0400)

WHERE: Санкт-Петербург, м. Технологический Институт, ул.1-я Красноармейская, дом 15

With high probability we will be playing Zendo. Also studying up information about CFAR and its publicly available information.

If you are russian lesswronger who sees this announcement for the first time, please check out our newsletter or vk group: newsletter or http://vk.com/lw_spb for more detailed descriptions.

If you are a foreign guest in Saint Petersburg - we also would all be glad to see you and to meet you - at lest some of our attendees speak english.

Discussion article for the meetup : Saint Petersburg sunday meetup

Meetup : Saint Petersburg sunday meetup

efim

12y

Discussion article for the meetup : Saint Petersburg sunday meetup

WHEN: 16 February 2014 04:00:00PM (+0400)

WHERE: Санкт-Петербург, м. Технологический Институт, ул.1-я Красноармейская, дом 15

We most likely will be trying out Pandemia and biased board gaming.

Also I expect some discussions to arrise around topics of congitive biases, utility, or other zeitgeist stuff.

If you are russian lesswronger who sees one of my ads for the first time, please check out our newsletter or vk group: newsletter or http://vk.com/lw_spb for more detailed descriptions.

If you are a foreign guest in Saint Petersburg - we also would all be glad to see you and to meet you - at lest some of our attendees speak english.

LESSWRONG
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LESSWRONG
LW

I'm in a really dark place right now, I think I need help.

Using Doulingo 'Immersion' feature to translate HPMOR

Taking Hammertime Final Exam by efim

Meetup : Saint Petersburg, Russia

efim

Taking Hammertime Final Exam by efim

Request for advices on small presentation about LW community

Meetup : Saint Petersburg meetup. Habits and spring.

Using Doulingo 'Immersion' feature to translate HPMOR

I'm in a really dark place right now, I think I need help.

Meetup : Saint Petersburg, Russia meetup: "Low hanging fruit"

Meetup : Saint Petersburg meetup - "with probable lectures"

efim

I'm in a really dark place right now, I think I need help.

Using Doulingo 'Immersion' feature to translate HPMOR

Taking Hammertime Final Exam by efim

Meetup : Saint Petersburg, Russia

efim

Taking Hammertime Final Exam by efim

Request for advices on small presentation about LW community

Meetup : Saint Petersburg meetup. Habits and spring.

Using Doulingo 'Immersion' feature to translate HPMOR

I'm in a really dark place right now, I think I need help.

Meetup : Saint Petersburg, Russia meetup: "Low hanging fruit"

Meetup : Saint Petersburg meetup - "with probable lectures"

Discussion article for the meetup : Saint Petersburg meetup. Habits and spring.

Discussion article for the meetup : Saint Petersburg meetup. Habits and spring.

Discussion article for the meetup : Saint Petersburg, Russia meetup: "Low hanging fruit"

Discussion article for the meetup : Saint Petersburg, Russia meetup: "Low hanging fruit"

Discussion article for the meetup : Saint Petersburg meetup - "with probable lectures"

Discussion article for the meetup : Saint Petersburg meetup - "with probable lectures"

Discussion article for the meetup : Saint Petersburg meetup - "the lonely one"

Discussion article for the meetup : Saint Petersburg meetup - "the lonely one"

Discussion article for the meetup : Saint Petersburg sunday meetup

Discussion article for the meetup : Saint Petersburg sunday meetup

Discussion article for the meetup : Saint Petersburg sunday meetup

Discussion article for the meetup : Saint Petersburg sunday meetup