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Setting up my work environment - Doing the causation backwards
minta9800

Hahahha I love your last approach.

I must say, what works best for me is simply removing said cookie. I never eat junk food. Why? Because I don't have any. I never watch television. Why? Because I don't have one. (Might seem extreme but I can't have one anyway because I live in a shared flat and we have no place to put one, I just watch tv shows on my laptop)

Another strategy is the reward system. Did you spend less than 30 minutes watching tv today? Here you go, buy yourself a cookie. Sometimes this work, sometimes it doesn't. The best is to just keep trying different approaches and you will eventually find the one that works.

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Applicable advice
minta9810

The more general a piece of advice is, the more amount of people can associate with it in more situations. Once you get into more details, it is easier to apply to a specific situation of a certain person. That is why these short sentences of advice can only be really used as motivation or inspiration to search for more reliable and good help, to apply them would do more harm than good in my opinion.

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1ChristianKl
I don't think the issue is that "you need to speak your mind more often" applies to more situations than Radical Honesty does. Radical Honesty is a system that you can live 16 hours per day. It might even debatable whether you can do it for the full 24 hours. The issue is rather that it takes more effort to understand Radical Honesty. "you need to speak your mind more often" is the kind of advice that a 5-year old can understand and is valued by the ELI5 crowd. And that sentence is quite ironic given what Radical Honesty is about (eg. you are not 5-year old and are therefore much harder to teach).
Mental models - giving people personhood and taking it away
minta9820

What you're saying is pretty interesting, because I think we all classified people in different categories when we were children, and as we evolved those categories evolved too. To answer your questions:

My classifications seem to be way too complex to explain, not even I understand them, but to put it simply, I think I classify between people who I get on well with and people who I don't get on well with. After that, it becomes a dichotomous classification and it just branches out. It's after that first classification that I see whether they have their shi... (read more)

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Low hanging productivity - improving your workspace
minta9800

  1. Having a constant clean workspace helps me. I always use a lot papers and files, so I've learnt that cleaning up a bit every hour or so really helps.

  2. I think the best place would be in a quiet small coffee shop with not too many people where you have a nice big table to yourself in a corner and with the lovely smell of coffee and buns... so beautiful haha

  3. At the moment my workspace is the library, because my desk at home is tiny and makes it hard to concentrate. But cleaning up the current workspace will definitely make it easier to get to work tomorrow for me.

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