I want to spend time with more meaningful things, therefore:
50 ways to simplify life/save time (some of these things solve the problem indirectly. For example going out of my comfort zone and making communicating routine results having it easier in future social situations etc.):
Delete unnecessary accounts
Use password manager
Delete unnecessary apps/programs
Unsubscribe from newsletters, instead read in-depth literature on things I want to learn
Delete screenshots of e-book pages (after I noted the relevant part down)
Do stuff from the doing later list now
Keep only the most important bookmarks
Use mind palace for daily chores, as a calendar, to memorize recipes etc.
Learn shortcuts
Less light information sources
Spend more time with people I love or find interesting (less with others)
Create a capsule wardrobe
Start onetime projects and finish them fast if they bring joy/are useful
Otherwise discard them
Get another plant within next five days or gift the pot (reminds me otherwise of my old one ;-;)
No mindless browsing allowed
Search for feedback (so I do less unnecessary work)
Raise my hand in class every time I think of an answer
Try things from my try-things-list
Write regularly on LessWrong
Become a Toastmaster and regularly attend events
Participate in competitions
Learn another memory technique (forgot the name)
Find out what others think of me
Start to think more realistic about myself
Donate and gift a lot of my stuff
Break big things into smaller and easier things
Spending 10 min fully focused on a thing I want to learn everyday (increase to more things/more time)
Write down things I want to do, learn etc. Assign numbers from 1 to 10 according to how important they are. Discard the things on the end of the list.
Assign to the rest of the list numbers according to how easy they are and start doing them
Read books about how to efficiently interact with other people, mental math and other mind tools etc.
(After I read through most of the books I have) Create an account on goodreads
Establish rules for when buying things (for example a certain price, certain colours, only necessary things etc.)
Delegate tasks
Learn how to focus better (reading about it, experimenting)
Set timers when working on tasks
Remove everything which could distract me
Own only a few things so that cleaning will never be a problem again, cause any arrangement out of all the things I own looks cool and creative
Tell others to gift me only non-consumer things
Meditate lots and become enlightend
Figure out how to become more effective and rational
Live from now on like a cave woman
Act like crazy and get into a psychiatry
Commit a serious crime and get caught
Die
Marry somebody rich who is completely okay with… well, me
Almost die and as a result stop being able to care for myself
Program the ultimate AI companion
Help humanity so that humanity owes me and I never have to do a thing myself ever again muhahahahaha
Define existing as meaningful
Time it took: When I remove the time I spend on writing something down, getting up and doing it and than coming back to delete the thing I wrote (sometimes, sometimes not) …. It took me less than… forty/fifty minutes?
I have read two books which cover the memory palace. One of them was written by Dominic O’Brien and I am pretty sure it was ‘How to Develop a Perfect Memory’. It covers awesome memory techniques.
It was written by Barbara Oakley. It does not goes far into memory palaces I believe (I read them years ago), but it changed the way I think about my memory, therefore it has been a very valuable book. I have not read much more about those topics though (therefore recommendations are always appreciated).
The way I build my own palace is quite different though than what I have read: My palace is made out of places I liked a lot (from real life, video games, ones I came up with etc.). You could say it is made out of two parts: The main memory palace, (for everyday tasks like chores, grocery list etc.) I use it, ‘reset’ and than I use it again. I had a vague idea on how it should look like and than I quickly sketched it out (just for aiding, it was lots of fun). Than it branches off in many smaller memory palaces, which are only used for a certain thing. There is a place for physics, life plans, Alicorn’s techniques from the luminosity sequence, how to write a good essay, rationality tools, reminders, words I want to learn etc. etc. I create those rooms spontaneously and I only rarely throw something out of there: For example if I have found a better mind tool than the previous one.
This works really well for me. Now I just need way more rooms for the calendar project (this and the one with the language learning is from O’Brien’s book) → for every month one road and ‘rooms’ for every single day (it should be an open place so you can easily look back on how the month went) and I need to use it more for dailies and recipes instead of the old way I memorized things, but this is just a matter of practice.
So in my experience, it is the most important thing to be playful about it.
I want to spend time with more meaningful things, therefore:
50 ways to simplify life/save time (some of these things solve the problem indirectly. For example going out of my comfort zone and making communicating routine results having it easier in future social situations etc.):
Delete unnecessary accounts
Use password manager
Delete unnecessary apps/programs
Unsubscribe from newsletters, instead read in-depth literature on things I want to learn
Delete screenshots of e-book pages (after I noted the relevant part down)
Do stuff from the doing later list now
Keep only the most important bookmarks
Use mind palace for daily chores, as a calendar, to memorize recipes etc.
Learn shortcuts
Less light information sources
Spend more time with people I love or find interesting (less with others)
Create a capsule wardrobe
Start onetime projects and finish them fast if they bring joy/are useful
Otherwise discard them
Get another plant within next five days or gift the pot (reminds me otherwise of my old one ;-;)
No mindless browsing allowed
Search for feedback (so I do less unnecessary work)
Raise my hand in class every time I think of an answer
Try things from my try-things-list
Write regularly on LessWrong
Become a Toastmaster and regularly attend events
Participate in competitions
Learn another memory technique (forgot the name)
Find out what others think of me
Start to think more realistic about myself
Donate and gift a lot of my stuff
Break big things into smaller and easier things
Spending 10 min fully focused on a thing I want to learn everyday (increase to more things/more time)
Write down things I want to do, learn etc. Assign numbers from 1 to 10 according to how important they are. Discard the things on the end of the list.
Assign to the rest of the list numbers according to how easy they are and start doing them
Read books about how to efficiently interact with other people, mental math and other mind tools etc.
(After I read through most of the books I have) Create an account on goodreads
Establish rules for when buying things (for example a certain price, certain colours, only necessary things etc.)
Delegate tasks
Learn how to focus better (reading about it, experimenting)
Set timers when working on tasks
Remove everything which could distract me
Own only a few things so that cleaning will never be a problem again, cause any arrangement out of all the things I own looks cool and creative
Tell others to gift me only non-consumer things
Meditate lots and become enlightend
Figure out how to become more effective and rational
Live from now on like a cave woman
Act like crazy and get into a psychiatry
Commit a serious crime and get caught
Die
Marry somebody rich who is completely okay with… well, me
Almost die and as a result stop being able to care for myself
Program the ultimate AI companion
Help humanity so that humanity owes me and I never have to do a thing myself ever again muhahahahaha
Define existing as meaningful
Time it took: When I remove the time I spend on writing something down, getting up and doing it and than coming back to delete the thing I wrote (sometimes, sometimes not) …. It took me less than… forty/fifty minutes?
2 and 4 are both things I implemented with great results.
Do you have a good link about mind palaces?
I have read two books which cover the memory palace. One of them was written by Dominic O’Brien and I am pretty sure it was ‘How to Develop a Perfect Memory’. It covers awesome memory techniques.
Than the other one:
https://www.amazon.de/Mind-Numbers-Science-Flunked-Algebra/dp/039916524X/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_de_DE=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&dchild=1&keywords=a+mind+for+numbers&qid=1603819322&sr=8-1
It was written by Barbara Oakley. It does not goes far into memory palaces I believe (I read them years ago), but it changed the way I think about my memory, therefore it has been a very valuable book. I have not read much more about those topics though (therefore recommendations are always appreciated).
The way I build my own palace is quite different though than what I have read: My palace is made out of places I liked a lot (from real life, video games, ones I came up with etc.). You could say it is made out of two parts: The main memory palace, (for everyday tasks like chores, grocery list etc.) I use it, ‘reset’ and than I use it again. I had a vague idea on how it should look like and than I quickly sketched it out (just for aiding, it was lots of fun). Than it branches off in many smaller memory palaces, which are only used for a certain thing. There is a place for physics, life plans, Alicorn’s techniques from the luminosity sequence, how to write a good essay, rationality tools, reminders, words I want to learn etc. etc. I create those rooms spontaneously and I only rarely throw something out of there: For example if I have found a better mind tool than the previous one.
This works really well for me. Now I just need way more rooms for the calendar project (this and the one with the language learning is from O’Brien’s book) → for every month one road and ‘rooms’ for every single day (it should be an open place so you can easily look back on how the month went) and I need to use it more for dailies and recipes instead of the old way I memorized things, but this is just a matter of practice.
So in my experience, it is the most important thing to be playful about it.
I hope that I was able to help you :)