This all seems like good advice. Some reflections as someone who’s been down the self-improvement road awhile.
1) Major improvements might have massive returns, but only work sometimes, and you may backslide. So when you’re setting expectations on how much to improve, it may initially look like 300% improvements are easily available but, sort of like the stock market, when you amortize them over years you get more like a “reasonable” looking 10% growth rate per year. (See Strategies for Personal Growth)
I feel in some ways like I backslid from when I wrote Sunset at Noon.
2) On the other hand, I’ve also seen some injection of agency getting applied lately within the Lightcone team. Some team members really have the skill of “figure out what you need, figure out who can help you, ask for it”, and it’s really powerful.
Firstly, Sunset at Noon is one of my most-liked LW posts, & maybe my favorite, so thanks for writing it :)
I’m curious about your first point. What do you mean by “backslide”? That the effort you put into new skills is not worth the skill itself? And in which ways do you feel like you backslid from when you wrote Sunset, if that’s not too personal a question?
By backslide I mean that I lost many of the habits I had, as well as a bit of general momentum. (though I think this was in large part due to quarantine)
This all seems like good advice. Some reflections as someone who’s been down the self-improvement road awhile.
1) Major improvements might have massive returns, but only work sometimes, and you may backslide. So when you’re setting expectations on how much to improve, it may initially look like 300% improvements are easily available but, sort of like the stock market, when you amortize them over years you get more like a “reasonable” looking 10% growth rate per year. (See Strategies for Personal Growth)
I feel in some ways like I backslid from when I wrote Sunset at Noon.
2) On the other hand, I’ve also seen some injection of agency getting applied lately within the Lightcone team. Some team members really have the skill of “figure out what you need, figure out who can help you, ask for it”, and it’s really powerful.
Firstly, Sunset at Noon is one of my most-liked LW posts, & maybe my favorite, so thanks for writing it :)
I’m curious about your first point. What do you mean by “backslide”? That the effort you put into new skills is not worth the skill itself? And in which ways do you feel like you backslid from when you wrote Sunset, if that’s not too personal a question?
By backslide I mean that I lost many of the habits I had, as well as a bit of general momentum. (though I think this was in large part due to quarantine)