> Instead of meditating twenty minutes every day and getting marginally better over time, spend 10 days every year at a meditation retreat making giant leaps to

> Instead of meditating twenty minutes every day and getting marginally better over time, spend 10 days every year at a meditation retreat making giant leaps towards enlightenment, and just live your life for the other 355. Hehe, if only meditation & enlightenment actually worked that way. A lot of things worth practicing or doing are much more effective done 20 minutes per day and not in sparse lump sums. It’s like saying don’t work out or train, just run a marathon twice a year. Exercise, meditation, learning new things, playing music, even writing code, are all activities where consistent practice will unlock big long term goals. Trying to optimize away the day-to-day work by consolidating it is counter-productive. “Barbell Strategy” is a hedge against rising interest rates (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbell_strategy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbell_strategy), so what reasons are there to think it applies to any other topics where we don’t even have something analogous to interest rates?