I noticed that you don’t talk too much about getting your life in order to the point where you can apply the things you describe here.
If you had the chance to meet your past self when it was still very fatigued, what resources would you jot down/leave behind so your tired-self would be able to quickly get itself fixed up? For instance, if your past self already knew that it should do a bunch of data logging/analysis, how would you help that version of yourself get the time to do it?
Honestly, the main thing was to start treating my life as an experiment. Before that, I was just doing what the doctors told me without checking to see if their recommendations actually produced good results. For me, experimenting mainly meant that I 1. tried tracking a bunch of things on my own and analyzing the results, and 2. was willing to try a lot more things, like caffeine pills and antidepressants, because the information value was high. (I first did my research and, when relevant, checked with a doctor, of course.) I think there was a mindset shift somewhere along the way explicitly rejecting that the status quo was innately good. If I was unsatisfied with something, I could try to change it, and I was effective if it got better. After I started experimenting, I prioritized experiments to deal with the bottleneck of fatigue and it was fairly straightforward.
I noticed that you don’t talk too much about getting your life in order to the point where you can apply the things you describe here.
If you had the chance to meet your past self when it was still very fatigued, what resources would you jot down/leave behind so your tired-self would be able to quickly get itself fixed up? For instance, if your past self already knew that it should do a bunch of data logging/analysis, how would you help that version of yourself get the time to do it?
Honestly, the main thing was to start treating my life as an experiment. Before that, I was just doing what the doctors told me without checking to see if their recommendations actually produced good results. For me, experimenting mainly meant that I 1. tried tracking a bunch of things on my own and analyzing the results, and 2. was willing to try a lot more things, like caffeine pills and antidepressants, because the information value was high. (I first did my research and, when relevant, checked with a doctor, of course.) I think there was a mindset shift somewhere along the way explicitly rejecting that the status quo was innately good. If I was unsatisfied with something, I could try to change it, and I was effective if it got better. After I started experimenting, I prioritized experiments to deal with the bottleneck of fatigue and it was fairly straightforward.