ditch volume control
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There are certain things that requires volume control: a little of them do you good, a lot of them mess you up.
Generically, all things require volume control; practically:
- limit of some thing are
not easily reacheddrinking hot water, doing zettelkasten, practice skill, little workout(with reps specified) - limit of some thing are really
easily exceededcasual gaming, streaming video, eating nuts from big bag, sitting on a chair, mindless practice(guitar, piano, anything; there is benefit, just get lost really quickly)
It is advisable to just ditch those activities that easily mess you up, and forget about volume control; and just do those things that do you harm only under very extreme conditions.
1. example
- remove game
- stream app
- put nut in kitchen closet and only eat with the bag back in closet
- standing as default
- practice only with idea and result
Backlinks
old index
(Mindset and lifestyle - useful stuff)
- ditch volume control
- attention counts
- think of reward
- growth mindset
- dopamine schedule
- low information diet
- attending and slipping
- solidify = repetition
- human cycle
- Quality vs. Duration
- one-shot job
- equality as in shared access
- physical mental environment
- wired
- time for waking up
- graph and text as primitive actions in state space of ideas
- output patterns as primitive for understanding
- states
life
(Be happy and better - guidelines, tools and principles)
- dopamine schedule
- ditch volume control
- attention counts
- think of reward
- growth mindset is the kind of thing that is weirdly good for everything
- daily ritual
- helpful activity and helpful activities
- Herman’s Life Policies holds some of my propositions on how to live in the abstraction of policy
- low information diet
- base task on material