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How to ask open-ended questions
How to avoid awkward silences
How to show interest in others
“We'll increasingly be defined by what we say no to.”
-Paul Graham
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Changing your environment=the most powerful way to change your behavior
In a normal situation, you might choose to eat a cookie rather than eat vegetables. What if the cookie wasn’t there to begin with? It is much easier to make the right choice if you’re surrounded by better choices. Remove the distractions from your environment and create a space with better choice...
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The answer to inconsistency
To beat procrastination and make better long-term choices, find a way to make your present self act in the best interest of your future self. You have 3 primary options:
- Make the rewards of long-term behavior more immediate.
- Make the costs of procrastination more immediate.
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Bike-Shedding or Parkinson’s Law of Triviality
The less important something is, the more time is spent on it.
When a topic is simple and easy to grasp, like a bike shed, we will tend to have an opinion on it and thus more to say.
Even if we don't, we'll still say something so that:
- We don't look stupid in front of o...
Jean-Paul Sartre and Existentialism
Jean-Paul Sartre was born in 1905 in Paris, France and is considered to be one of the main popularizers of existential thinking. For Existentialists, life has no fundamental meaning or truth beyond what is created by our decisions and actions within it.
The core of Existential thought is t...
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