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> then do something dumb for the easy part that follows. Happens all the time An old rule I learned doing extreme sports in high school: Never say "just one mo
by Swizec 3y ago
> then do something dumb for the easy part that follows. Happens all the time
An old rule I learned doing extreme sports in high school: Never say "just one more". That's when you get hurt.
I don't think you need ego depletion, brain metabolism, or any other grand science to explain why this happens. You relax, you pay less attention, you think you got this, and then you don't. Error rate is lower when you focus.
- energist 3y agoThe brain is an organ like any other and requires nutrition for proper function. Nothing grand about noting proper nutrient flow helps with cognition. It's intuitively obvious that hungry and tired people make more mistakes.
- Swizec 3y ago> hungry and tired people make more mistakes This is true. But even non hungry rested people make more mistakes when they underestimate a task. Which is what happens when you attempt a hard skill with a “eh this is the easy part” attitude.
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- FridgeSeal 3y agoA corollary for this might be great rule of thumb I’ve got from mountain biking and skiing: “when you start to mess up the easy stuff is when you back it off and call it”. Start coming up short on the easy little tabletops? Start finding yourself in the backseat on ski turns a bit too much? Time to have a break and reevaluate before you axe yourself because your skill for recovering might be saving you on the easy stuff, but if you’re not nailing that, you’re almost certainly going to screw up something with more serious consequences.
- pmontra 3y ago> “when you start to mess up the easy stuff is when you back it off and call it”. A few nights ago I was parking my car parallel to the side of a street, the usual retro maneuver. I failed it badly, unusual but it happens. I got out and did it again. Failed again. That was when I understood that I was really tired. I probably made too much sport in the previous days. I got out and made it right, then took a couple of days of rest.
- __MatrixMan__ 3y agoIt's not an overconfidence that gets me, it's a pessimistic extrapolation. I assume it's going to continue to be crux-level hard even past the crux and when it's not I still end up taxed as if it was.