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I heard that was a novel where a guy made life choices on a roll of a dice. I loved that idea. Obviously, the book took it to an extreme but really what is lif

I heard that was a novel where a guy made life choices on a roll of a dice. I loved that idea. Obviously, the book took it to an extreme but really what is life anyway, isn't it all just chaos and a lot of seemly random events? New pretend we have control and in some cases, it's this that actually makes us miserable. I'm curious since you recommended it to OP, how you apply this in your own life and if you have some examples of things you have discovered.

csdvrx 4y ago
> [We] pretend we have control and in some cases, it's this that actually makes us miserable. Totally! I follow the dice method myself, with some twist: for daily repeated decision. I complement it with a rank ordered list of my preferences, where sometimes I simply invert the list. So if there are 10 options, I would usually choose the 1st one (ex: my favorite drink) but sometimes I chose the last one (here, my least favorite drink). The dice says when I do that, with a minimal frequence of 1/6th for a regular D6. > I'm curious since you recommended it to OP, how you apply this in your own life and if you have some examples of things you have discovered. I have discovered I don't really have food preferences, and that what other human beings think taste good will taste good (even if not to my taste YET) at least after a small exposure period. The most interesting discoveries (ex: meat: now I like it almost raw!) have been made through this funny algorithm.