I’m not saying it all delivers promised miracles for me, I’m saying that enough of what I try works enough better than what I was doing as to be easily worth the costs of experimenting. There’s nothing particularly optimal about my current habits; what works for others is often a better guide to what will work for me than is “what I happen to already be doing” (especially if the other is skilled at what they do, and/or is generalizing from what works for a large set of people); and the data and freedom that comes from trying new things and from watching the results helps. Also, most of the reason I don’t do more real habit shifts is stuff in the vicinity of fear/inertia, given that it often helps when I do (and this has held even in some (most?) cases where someone insisted I really should change some particular trait/habit, and I insisted that they were wrong, though I realize this is a dangerous thing to say). I realize YMMV.
If you could take ALL the advice from productivity blogs and have it ALL work for you, wouldn’t it require less than a month to ascend to godhood?
Unless many of them are multiple ways to accomplish the same thing and therefore not cumulative even if they do work.
I’m not saying it all delivers promised miracles for me, I’m saying that enough of what I try works enough better than what I was doing as to be easily worth the costs of experimenting. There’s nothing particularly optimal about my current habits; what works for others is often a better guide to what will work for me than is “what I happen to already be doing” (especially if the other is skilled at what they do, and/or is generalizing from what works for a large set of people); and the data and freedom that comes from trying new things and from watching the results helps. Also, most of the reason I don’t do more real habit shifts is stuff in the vicinity of fear/inertia, given that it often helps when I do (and this has held even in some (most?) cases where someone insisted I really should change some particular trait/habit, and I insisted that they were wrong, though I realize this is a dangerous thing to say). I realize YMMV.