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.
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.