Wow, I didn't know this technique was so widespread. Thank you for the source!
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I'm trying to write fiction and this article helped me to build a tool box that I can use to decide what a story really needs. I don't have to use a hammer anymore to solve every problem!
Do you maybe have more resources like the one you shared, other than in this thread already?
I sporadically ask myself, what would be the most fun to do for me?
And then just do it. After a short period of time, I'm usually exhausted or bored by it and come back to more meaningful stuff.
I got this advice from the now habit by Neil Fire. I haven't read the whole book, just skipped forward to the solution but it helps.
The reason why we imagine time pass faster when we get older is related to how we experience and remember events during life.
As events excite us, the perception of that particular Time-Event is short but since we were fully engaged at that time, we remember it more in detail and thus taking longer. Vis versa, time spend in boredom is perceived as passing slowly but since nothing out of the ordinary is happening, we remember it as a quick period with nit much detail.
Couple that with the exciting youth and dreadful routine as an adult, your life in your older ages becomes repetitive plus, depending on how much knowledge you like to consume,feels easier to predict and thus by default less exciting. Experience kills the novelty and partially the excitement, resulting in the opinion that when you wake up one morning feeling like the past 5 years have passt with a blink of an eye, that time flies by.
I think that hobbies besides your daily routine can help you battle that feeling of lost years.
On the other hand I found something else helpful: you gotta figure out your calibration of your routine:novelty ratio. If you are a person that likes 60% novelty and 40% routine but you are stuck in a job that is very repetitive or doesn't leave you with enough energy after work, you'll end up earlier in that "life is passing too quickly category".
But if you somewhat can adjust your life to that calibration then you experience the right amount of novelty that makes you feel that life takes exactly as long as needed.
I love anki because it's free and every time I've used a new software, which was better, to learn new things, I had to pay eventually.
I have no technical background, I'm a lawyer but I like the the IT sector and its people a lot.
Last year, due to Covid, I got fired from my corporate legal job and got the opportunity to become the head of a department in the biggest IT company for legal management software in my country.
My department has the biggest workload in the he company and people work there ranging from5 to 20 years. They are amazing people and professionals but every two months the staff get shuffled around into different departments like it's a shell game.
Some got used to it over time and developed kind of detachment that penetrated the personality. You just see thousands yards stares by sole Individuums in their cubicles.
Upper management is a joke. They never left us alone to show real long-term results. I spend more time building a team than improving people's performances. Sometimes old team members call me up for advice and when they get reshuffled into my apartment again, they glow with energy again.
Managers told me some of my team mates were unmanageable and I couldn't figure out why because if I ask them to do something they'll always comply.
I could tell you more detailed stories about my workplace but it would probably bore you.
Anyways, I hope there is a place for me in this IT world. A company that values the impact a non-tech guy can have on the culture and wiling to learn. I want to build a team that has each other's backs, where you can be personal with your supervisor steam and solve problems in a professional way.
My outcome with that particular company was that I quit three weeks ago. I have no knew job lining up and I'll miss my people a lot but I don't want to become numb and burned out by being a sisyphos.
I think to blame tech for the problem with connectedness is only one part of the problem.
Let's get everyone in the market with small money, test what works for you with almost no money and then when you found your investment strategy, scale it.
Sounds like product development to me or do you think only people are allowed to code and "waste their lifetime" when they got x?
How do you keep your sleep rhythms while you're working?
I'm wondering why no one in the comment section commented on the fisherman's content for dying.
He was ready to go at any moment and still defeated death when he was staring at him. I think that was the most remarkable and most wholesome aspect of the article.
Thank you for answering my questions and expanding more on the topic. You actually didn't have much convincing to do because it seemed so fundamentally true that it was hard to come up with an argument against it. I still believe analogies have more value than being mere approximations to an unimaginable world (numbers, states, etc). But like with all beliefs, I don't have any evidence to support my beliefs and rely on my intuition and experience.
Thank you for taking your time to answer.
I sometimes find tremendous insight in a piece of literature that is analogous to real life difficulties. Provided that, that piece of writing, also offers some sort of a solution to the "problem".
Those problems I'm referring to are for example confidence, psyche (esp. C.G.Jung), getting over traumas etc.
Obviously, my formentioned cases are not extensive and everyone finds something else that they struggle with where a piece of literature might help.
2. Thank you for your insights. If your answer to question 1. is no, I'd like to know what kind of analogies you think are valuable and why?
It's nice to have another aspect or perspective on learning but it is certainly not a "new learning strategy". I agree.
And yet there is a merit in analogies, they can help you understand the underlying principles of something, in this case learning. I'm not sure people (including me) always get the full picture of something and an article can help with that showing learning from another angle.
In general I agree with you and yet the article adds something for some to their understanding of what learning is.
Thanks for that.