Here’s a faulty psychological pattern that I recently resolved for myself. It’s a big one.
I want to grow. So I seek out novelty. Try new things. For example I might buy high-lumen light bulbs to increase my mood. So I buy them, feel somewhat better, celebrate the win and move on.
Problem is, I’ve bought high-lumen bulbs three times in my life now already, yet I sit here without any. So this pattern might happen all over again: I feel like upgrading my life, get this nice idea of buying light bulbs, buy them, celebrate my win and move on.
So here’s 4 life-upgrades, but did I grow 4 times? Obviously I only grew once. From not having high lumen light bulbs to having them.
My instinct towards growth seems to think this:
growth = novelty
But in reality, it seems to be more like this:
growth = novelty—decay
which I define as equal to
growth = novelty + preservation
The tap I installed that puts this preservation mindset into practice seems to be very helpful. It’s as follows: if I wonder what to do, instead of starting over (“what seems like the best upgrade to add to my life?”) I first check whether I’m on track with the implementation of past good ideas (“what did my past self intend to do with this moment again?”)
Funnily enough, so far the feeling I get from this mindset seems pretty similar to the feeling I get from meditation. And meditation can be seen as training yourself to put your attention on your past intentions too.
I think this one goes a lot deeper than what I’ve written here. I’ll be revisiting this idea.
Here’s a faulty psychological pattern that I recently resolved for myself. It’s a big one.
I want to grow. So I seek out novelty. Try new things. For example I might buy high-lumen light bulbs to increase my mood. So I buy them, feel somewhat better, celebrate the win and move on.
Problem is, I’ve bought high-lumen bulbs three times in my life now already, yet I sit here without any. So this pattern might happen all over again: I feel like upgrading my life, get this nice idea of buying light bulbs, buy them, celebrate my win and move on.
So here’s 4 life-upgrades, but did I grow 4 times? Obviously I only grew once. From not having high lumen light bulbs to having them.
My instinct towards growth seems to think this:
But in reality, it seems to be more like this:
which I define as equal to
The tap I installed that puts this preservation mindset into practice seems to be very helpful. It’s as follows: if I wonder what to do, instead of starting over (“what seems like the best upgrade to add to my life?”) I first check whether I’m on track with the implementation of past good ideas (“what did my past self intend to do with this moment again?”)
Funnily enough, so far the feeling I get from this mindset seems pretty similar to the feeling I get from meditation. And meditation can be seen as training yourself to put your attention on your past intentions too.
I think this one goes a lot deeper than what I’ve written here. I’ll be revisiting this idea.
Presumably not the main point, what ends up happening to your luminators?
Moved to a new country twice, they broke once.
But the real cause is that I didnt regard these items as my standard inventory, which I would have done if I had more of a preservation mindset.