Notes | Tutorial 16

Date: 2020-07-20

• object/complement patterns
  • can look up / memorise linking verbs

motivation and things

• when ppl don’t do things with no obvious reason (emotions/motivation)
  • not fully persuaded
    • conflicted
    • criticisms, doubts, objections (in your mind)

• part: frustrated / not doing what I value

• the avoidance behaviour (e.g. social events over reading books)
  • reasons I like the social events, not fully refuted so don’t try avoiding them
• consume less mental energy -> rested
  • do it tired
• find video games more
  • often go back to old ones
  • easier / familiar
  • easier to do tired
  • liked for reasons like reward cycles / (pve wow + bethesda)
  • do better different
• reward cycles
  • common misconceptions
    • defer to authority - approval by teacher type thing
      • ppl not used to setting goals, game gives you goals
        • easier / thoughtless too
        • collectables, level ups, sounds, choose stats ritual, etc
        • games provide indirection: get to lvl 60 before this area is unlocked
      • ppl not confident in setting own goals
        • effortful
        • compete against ppl on same goals, make comparisons (all playing a diff game)
        • std goals allows syncing up between players
        • why would these goals appeal more than my goals?
          • my goals unclear to me?

criticism of bad things is not thourough enough

things ppl think are good not fully convinced

• e.g. reading not always good
  • not getting enough value out of that
  • their type of reading not always good
    • if they were better they might do more, or at least know more about whether they do like it or not
  • ppl have misconceptions, e.g. of what intellectuals do
    • e.g. over-rational prediction of what life would be like
    • which they don’t really want
• categories
  • might like things instead of FI
  • critcisms that aren’t thorough enough
  • FI work not productive enough
    • not doing in best ways?
  • doubts/objections
    • e.g. will it lead to a big difference
• overestimation of capacity
  • best case vs average case, no buffer etc
  • not accounting being tired, just raw time
  • transition time, overhead
• burnout testable
  • break + sleep + see if feel better
    • burnout -> should be able to manage life in better way
      • could build up slowly
      • how to deal with over-engagement?
      • find limits via overly-conservative
• if prob is burnout, shouldn’t be super hard to find long-term soln
  • err on low side
    • tune it up gradually
  • variety of activity including easier ones
    • use different resources
    • small amount of “high output” hours per day
• imbalance between mental/physical means excess capacity you could use
  • efficiency
  • how quickly you get tired -> how hard -> quality and practice of prerequisites
    • foundation makes that better
      • conflicts on belief on foundations?
    • FI has lots of unique/diverse skills (different from my BG for example)
• early warning signs
  • document and learn to listen to them
• avoiding working on some issues because stuck is more specific than doing things because of tiredness which is more general

evasion: after break, do they go back to something else or something different? returning to topic: indication the problem

disappointed in self

• desired to see self as X / be seen as X
  • social: threatening to lose status
  • conflict
• clash between reasonable expectations and actual case
• recalibrate expectations (what you’re able to do, etc)
• could just lower
  • but coming up with explanatory understanding -> higher direction / specific fixes / etc

daily energy budgets

• reducing overhead important
• practice increases budgets in relevant areas (like exercise and physical currency)
  • potential compound wrt learning
• cheapening activities - no limit?
  • doing something according to misconception
    • goal of reading a book is not to read all the words, but to understand concpets (well with some books)
      • outlines / search / etc
• using budget more efficiently - what’s your ACTUAL maximum budget
  • understanding regen
  • rest activities (nap, random tv/chill, music, etc)

overhead:

• whats normal?
  • if not standard, high priority, [usually] achievable (b/c not normal)
• inefficiency comes from errors (sometimes irrational; like misconceptions when starting a project)
  • that’s higher priority
• bigger issue: commitments and time mgmt / limits

WRT big picture change: piecemeal change

overestimation of impact of new knowledge

splitting activities?

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