Photo by My Name on Unsplash Habits have been extensively written about in pop-literature for the last couple of years. Many claims have been made! Want to get an awesome body? Habitify it! Want to become great at your studies? Place gummy-bears on each page to train your pesky mind....
What is the good life? Probably one of the most important questions we have to ask. Science is moving closer to answering it. This post is a map of what I believe makes a good life. I'm putting it here for you to critique, to hear and maybe it inspires...
This post is for you if: 1. Projects that excite you are growing to be a burden on your to-do list 2. You have a nagging sense that you’re not making the most of the ideas you have every day 3. Your note- and idea-system has grown to be an...
Hi Lukas!
Just stumbled upon this, sounds awesome! Any tips or pointers on the event radar? Screenshots or similar would be incredible!
Thanks!
Okay, so I got it to work! Basically you just do what it says on here: https://blog.immersed.team/wi-fi-direct-8ec23c74fdab
And then connect the Quest 2 to the new network your mac is broadcasting :-)
My WiFi is good enough to not need it, but I'm sure I'll need it when I'm out of town.
Thanks! I might give it a go and use Ethernet <-> Mac <-> Quest 2. I think you could do iPhone via bluetooth <-> Mac <-> Quest 2 – I'll have to test that out. If you wanna know how it goes, feel free to reply in a week or so!
Ah, so the latency without wifidirect is too bad for regular use?
I read that if you disable SIP, you can get wifidirect back up and running. That's not good security practice, though.
Hi Ozzie! Any news on the adapter, and how you kept using Immersed? :-)
Habits have been extensively written about in pop-literature for the last couple of years. Many claims have been made!
Want to get an awesome body? Habitify it!
Want to become great at your studies? Place gummy-bears on each page to train your pesky mind.
Want to get rid of stress? Sit in the same spot and breathe through your nose for 5 minutes, and to ensure you keep doing it, track it in a spreadsheet.
But how well does this fit with the habit literature? And why don’t more people train themselves with gummy-bears? Let’s find out!
Many of us are in unfamiliar contexts, being forced to work from home to... (read 1741 more words →)
In principle, yes. In practice, many external circumstances modify perceived and factual autonomy :-)
Thank you so much! I'm exploring here, so thank you for your input.
Still, I would not say I have reached some maximum; I still want.
Oh, definitely! I mean "maximum" in the sense of increasing well-being, not in the sense that there is a limit.
Another aspect that I wondered about was that bit about journeys versus end points
This fits incredibly well into SDT, but I agree that I did not specify it in the article. One of the most competence-satisfying things is optimal challenges, challenges where you're stretching your abilities but still likely to succeed.
How would we evaluate things, or even should we, in a retrospective view?
I think this is a... (read more)
A lot to unpack here! Three statements catch my eye:
Autonomy: making decisions and taking responsibility for these decisions? The most stressful thing in life.
Autonomy: the choice to say 'no' to one's decision? Something that we always have, only the results vary depending on the circumstances and will not always make us happy.
Autonomy: financial and physical ability to own and do what we want? Something that we have little influence on.
Autonomy in the SDT-sense is not defined by whether we're making decisions, nor whether we can own what we want. To make it as specific I can, it's scoring high on the BPNSFS which contains the following items on autonomy:
I think that phenomenologically, you're right. Other-directed goals (need for relatedness, in SDT terminology) feel like they're essentially other-directed.
I think that the evolutionary cause for having other-directed goals is directed at your own genetic proliferation, and I also think that autonomously holding other-directed goals improves your own well-being, even above and beyond the benefits you get because they like you for it. Eg. Gore et al. 2009.
Stated differently, even if you're optimising completely selfishly, you'll have to be unselfish. We care about others simply because they are important to us, not because they make us happy. They are a terminal value. If they are instrumental, we don't get the benefits to well-being. But caring for them terminally also carries benefits to ourselves. I think that's wonderful!
What is the good life? Probably one of the most important questions we have to ask. Science is moving closer to answering it. This post is a map of what I believe makes a good life. I'm putting it here for you to critique, to hear and maybe it inspires some useful introspection.You guys are smart people, you reason well, and you don't hold back in your criticisms. I hope you will do the same for this post. Thank you for your time.
This is where science falls short. We can figure out how to get from A to B, but I find it unlikely that science can define a B... (read 1029 more words →)
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Years ago, I ready David Allen’s “Getting Things Done”. One of the core ideas is to write down everything, collect it in an inbox and sort it once a day.
This lead to me writing down tons of small tasks. I used Todoist to construct a system that worked for me — and rarely missed tasks.
It also lead to me getting a lot of ideas, that could sprout... (read 1019 more words →)
Martin here, the main author of the above. Thanks a ton for this!
If I understand your reply correctly, your conclusion is that epidemiologists should:
I think these are important points!
But given the very small effects estimated here, you aren't arguing for a change to the interpretation of the studies in the post, right? :-)