Though I’m not quite sure if I’m adding anything new or useful, here’s my thoughts:
I had followed your luminosity sequence with great interest when you first started it, but with the amount of work I put into reading the individual posts (moderate?), I felt I only ended up with disconnected pieces of information that I couldn’t really apply to my life. I would have possibly gained more if I had put forth more effort looking for the connections and the ways in which the techniques could’ve been applicable to me. These stories effectively convey what I’d hoped to find, probably with much greater effect than I could’ve achieved on my own.
AFAICS, you basically compressed the whole sequence to this one post (given that I had read the previous posts) making each of the posts you referred to grounded to certain ‘concrete’ things to do, for me anyway. I feel that with this post, I am very much more likely to actually implement many of these luminosity-increasing techniques and hopefully achieve a lasting change.
Unless I’m prematurely attributing much greater impact to this post than I should given my future behaviour (i.e. whether I will continue behaving like I always have or not), I would say this has definitely been one of the (personally) most useful posts in Lesswrong that I’ve read so far (I’ve followed OB/LW since 2007 or so).
Though I’m not quite sure if I’m adding anything new or useful, here’s my thoughts:
I had followed your luminosity sequence with great interest when you first started it, but with the amount of work I put into reading the individual posts (moderate?), I felt I only ended up with disconnected pieces of information that I couldn’t really apply to my life. I would have possibly gained more if I had put forth more effort looking for the connections and the ways in which the techniques could’ve been applicable to me. These stories effectively convey what I’d hoped to find, probably with much greater effect than I could’ve achieved on my own.
AFAICS, you basically compressed the whole sequence to this one post (given that I had read the previous posts) making each of the posts you referred to grounded to certain ‘concrete’ things to do, for me anyway. I feel that with this post, I am very much more likely to actually implement many of these luminosity-increasing techniques and hopefully achieve a lasting change.
Unless I’m prematurely attributing much greater impact to this post than I should given my future behaviour (i.e. whether I will continue behaving like I always have or not), I would say this has definitely been one of the (personally) most useful posts in Lesswrong that I’ve read so far (I’ve followed OB/LW since 2007 or so).