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I agree putting resources towards known things you like is quite narrowing your experiences. Well, defining „things you like“ as few top choices. But given nex

by mantas 4y ago

I agree putting resources towards known things you like is quite narrowing your experiences. Well, defining „things you like“ as few top choices. But given next-to-infinite opportunities these days, it's easy to have rather wide range of experiences and don't have much resources left for even more opportunities. That brings one more issue, depth vs width. Given how many options we have, it's not possible to go for both depth and width at the same time. In many cases going into depth open up many experiences that you can't access floating on the surface. For example, I'm deep into outdoors endurance sports, cycling/hiking/etc. I did limit width a lot by not trying yoga or scuba diving or motorcycling. However, going into depth with outdoors endurance stuff opened up another layer of experiences like overnight skiing trip in -20c or doing solo 24h mtb race. On one hand, skiing is skiing and cycling is cycling and there's not much novelty beyond 10km. On the other hand, built up stamina, skills and technical knowledge allows to expand into 3rd experiences' dimension. As for the „gotta go“, that may depend on a person a lot. I'm not a people guy and I need a lot of solo time to recharge. I did skip many social events in exchange of a silent night of Civ or coding. I know it would have been great experiences. But I doubt I'd be able to enjoy them. Social time tolerance is one more limiting resource I guess...

brailsafe 4y ago
Ya I was actually thinking about all of this today in the context of allocating the space and resources to develop something into that 3rd level of experience, and basically agree with everything you just said for the same reasons. I didn't get into hiking at the same time as biking or skateboarding, I developed depth in each gradually, which allows me to engage in them with less overhead over time. I tend not to explore things that I anticipate I'll want to go deep with if I don't feel like I can make way for them yet. I'm gradually dipping my toe into hobbyist electronics stuff, very very slowly, but I've made space for it by already having appropriate kit for more lengthy day hikes, skateboarding, programming, and whatever else. Trying to solder something for the first time this weekend won't prevent me from doing a 30km hike the next day, because I don't need to spend time researching head lamps or shoes. If I wanted to expand into mountaineering, which I do, I'd need to be comfortable with leaving my other things for a bit, which only comes once they're less demanding to maintain Are you around the west coast of Canada by chance?

by mantas 4y ago

brailsafe 4y ago

Ya I was actually thinking about all of this today in the context of allocating the space and resources to develop something into that 3rd level of experience, and basically agree with everything you just said for the same reasons. I didn't get into hiking at the same time as biking or skateboarding, I developed depth in each gradually, which allows me to engage in them with less overhead over time. I tend not to explore things that I anticipate I'll want to go deep with if I don't feel like I can make way for them yet. I'm gradually dipping my toe into hobbyist electronics stuff, very very slowly, but I've made space for it by already having appropriate kit for more lengthy day hikes, skateboarding, programming, and whatever else. Trying to solder something for the first time this weekend won't prevent me from doing a 30km hike the next day, because I don't need to spend time researching head lamps or shoes. If I wanted to expand into mountaineering, which I do, I'd need to be comfortable with leaving my other things for a bit, which only comes once they're less demanding to maintain Are you around the west coast of Canada by chance?