The explicit lesson in this is that we should always be looking for self-improvements: skills to gain, fixes for our flaws, etc. There is a related lesson, a bit easier to apply, which I would like to highlight:
Every possible avenue for self-improvement that comes to our attention is important, important enough to take seriously, where “take seriously” means a minimum of five minutes of thought, concluding with a cost-benefit analysis, a firm decision to pursue, reject, or shelve it, and if the decision is to pursue it, a concrete next action. Skipping any one of these steps means losing experience points.
Skipping any one of these steps means losing experience points.
Interesting way to put it.
Experience points aren’t just something you receive when you do things, they’re something that can be earned by reflecting on relevant information, and lost by not paying attention.
The explicit lesson in this is that we should always be looking for self-improvements: skills to gain, fixes for our flaws, etc. There is a related lesson, a bit easier to apply, which I would like to highlight:
Every possible avenue for self-improvement that comes to our attention is important, important enough to take seriously, where “take seriously” means a minimum of five minutes of thought, concluding with a cost-benefit analysis, a firm decision to pursue, reject, or shelve it, and if the decision is to pursue it, a concrete next action. Skipping any one of these steps means losing experience points.
Interesting way to put it.
Experience points aren’t just something you receive when you do things, they’re something that can be earned by reflecting on relevant information, and lost by not paying attention.
There is so much advice for self-improvement here and in the rest of the Internet! I personally use the following strategy:
Save/bookmark everything that might be/become important
Prioritize what you want to improve upon first, improve this, and start again