In the previous post it was suggested that to be Level 1 you should be able to do any of the Level 1 tests at any time. Perhaps have a quarterly testing schedule, with the date chosen at random? Post a table for each of the attributes showing Levels and actions, and have something like you can consider yourself a level X if you do at least Y actions at that level.
This would encourage building habits rather than ramping up for a week or two and testing yourself, like one-and-done leveling does, as you would have to be ready for a test at any time. If it works how I hope it would, you feel like you’re steadily grinding your way up over the months/year.
One thing I’d like to strongly suggest is avoiding any task that requires special equipment a significant portion of the less wrong readership may not have easy access to. Unless you’re in college or already belong to a gym, it would cost around 150$ (gym activation fee and a month or two of membership) to do the level 1 tasks.
At this point I’m wondering if we should just skip the tests and incentivize the habits directly. There seem to be one or two awesome exercises in each area that are almost guaranteed to make you better if you do them regularly. Such exercises can be pretty hard to find, though. In particular, I’d be really interested to find an exercise for “social stuff” that was as good as Project Euler or jumping rope.
In the previous post it was suggested that to be Level 1 you should be able to do any of the Level 1 tests at any time. Perhaps have a quarterly testing schedule, with the date chosen at random? Post a table for each of the attributes showing Levels and actions, and have something like you can consider yourself a level X if you do at least Y actions at that level.
This would encourage building habits rather than ramping up for a week or two and testing yourself, like one-and-done leveling does, as you would have to be ready for a test at any time. If it works how I hope it would, you feel like you’re steadily grinding your way up over the months/year.
One thing I’d like to strongly suggest is avoiding any task that requires special equipment a significant portion of the less wrong readership may not have easy access to. Unless you’re in college or already belong to a gym, it would cost around 150$ (gym activation fee and a month or two of membership) to do the level 1 tasks.
At this point I’m wondering if we should just skip the tests and incentivize the habits directly. There seem to be one or two awesome exercises in each area that are almost guaranteed to make you better if you do them regularly. Such exercises can be pretty hard to find, though. In particular, I’d be really interested to find an exercise for “social stuff” that was as good as Project Euler or jumping rope.