small and simple works
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A change/action performed by man would work (consistently) only if it is small and simple enough for one to qualify as a primitive action (a simple one).
Examples:
- all zettelkasten primitives are small and simple, one increment at a time
capture
1
idea; write1
zettel; add1
link… - Ferriss, Timothy ::: The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman expilicitly attributes its robustness over other fat loss methods over (p24) “the changes are either small or simple and often both”
Backlinks
Ferriss, Timothy ::: The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman
(Ideas)
- fundamentals
- experimental lifestyle
- small and simple works
- rules for rapid redesign
- no exercise burns many calories
- everything not food is drug
- 20 pound is significant
- diet-drug-exercise slider (60-10-30 is a recoemnmdation)
- adherence over efficiency
- exercise and physical recreation, and exercise neq physical recreation
- correlation and cause-and-effect, and don't confuse correlation with cause-and-effect
- cycling and cycling is good
- predisposition and predestination, and predisposition is not predestination
- propaganda and ignore propaganda proactively
- calory is not good metric
- ground zero
- swaraj
- following advice is hard
- Harajuku Moment
- go with the flow and intention-driven action
- use data
- oversimplifying and direction over precision
- pseudo-science numbers
- make it conscious
- observer effect
- make it game
- make it competitive
- make it small and temporary
- measurement = motivation
- we are what we do 5 times
- fear of loss and fear of loss as motivator
- social comparison theory
- flash diet
- subtracting fat
- add muscle
- perfecting sleep
primitive action
primitive action is defined as an atomic action that is simple and self-evident to you, such that you know how it’s done without reference. Examples would be Travel from Location A to Location B, Buy Alcohol, Cook meal.