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I'm especially intrigued by the prompts you have that direct you to reflect on the status of various aspects of your life. These questions reminded me a lot of

by sp0rk 4y ago

I'm especially intrigued by the prompts you have that direct you to reflect on the status of various aspects of your life. These questions reminded me a lot of a list that I started a while back of small inconveniences in my life that had been ignored long-term. I found that just by starting the list, I was instantly able to start recognizing all these little hurdles that I had just been quietly dealing with every day. For example, the knob on the lid of our pool pump was broken and it hurt my hand every time I had to unscrew it, but I would just deal with the pain. Once I made my list and identified that as a recurring inconvenience, it was clear that it was worth the effort to go to the pool store and buy a replacement. It was a cheap item and trivial to replace, both things I knew the whole time, but somehow did not really examine before the list. I was happy with my little inconveniences list until now, but seeing all of the other various prompts that you've made for yourself, I'm thinking I should explore this strategy even further. Would you mind posting a link to the full text of the prompts? Some of them are cut off at the end from your screenshot. Thanks!

surprisetalk 4y ago
Here's my current list of routines: https://gist.github.com/surprisetalk/bc53ddd517c62ec7e98f2af4c0536f6d https://gist.github.com/surprisetalk/bc53ddd517c62ec7e98f2af... On this list, you'll notice a lot of "never" routines. When I retire a routine, I change it to "never" so that it's easy to reenable it if I ever need it again. For example, I recently got laid off, so I'm allocating more time to personal projects than career stuff. Training yourself to recognize things is difficult! Forcing yourself to look at something every hour or every day can force you to see the world differently within a matter of weeks. Brains tend to tune things out, so nowify prints out randomized lists inline for many of these prompts. For instance, when I'm supposed to send memes to people, it prints 10 random memes and 3 random people to turn it into a little game.

by sp0rk 4y ago

surprisetalk 4y ago

Here's my current list of routines: https://gist.github.com/surprisetalk/bc53ddd517c62ec7e98f2af4c0536f6d https://gist.github.com/surprisetalk/bc53ddd517c62ec7e98f2af... On this list, you'll notice a lot of "never" routines. When I retire a routine, I change it to "never" so that it's easy to reenable it if I ever need it again. For example, I recently got laid off, so I'm allocating more time to personal projects than career stuff. Training yourself to recognize things is difficult! Forcing yourself to look at something every hour or every day can force you to see the world differently within a matter of weeks. Brains tend to tune things out, so nowify prints out randomized lists inline for many of these prompts. For instance, when I'm supposed to send memes to people, it prints 10 random memes and 3 random people to turn it into a little game.