Re: your question on Facebook about relative upvotes between this and your “Deferring” post.
The thesis of this post is the last paragraph. I had to read this whole long-ish before finding out what your point was. It wasn’t a bad point, but if you’re going to keep me interested in hearing about you driving around doing errands and noticing roofs, then I should know in advance what the intended lesson of the post is. I would have found the post much improved if some version the “Really About” section had come first, rather than (or, better yet, in addition to) last.
In the “Deferring” post, the thesis of your post was the first sentence.
Defer had obvious and extremely useful applications and little to no lag time to try them, whereas training habits is inherently non-instantaneous.
Defer used social anxiety as an example (which I think many readers have experienced to one degree or another), whereas Notice is about … red barn roofs?
Defer had a super-catchy title, and may have gotten more clicks in the first place.
As an aside, part of me hopes that Notice and Defer constitute some kind of A/B testing, and that Brienne is figuring out how to make Really Awesome Posts, and is going to do so :D
Re: your question on Facebook about relative upvotes between this and your “Deferring” post.
The thesis of this post is the last paragraph. I had to read this whole long-ish before finding out what your point was. It wasn’t a bad point, but if you’re going to keep me interested in hearing about you driving around doing errands and noticing roofs, then I should know in advance what the intended lesson of the post is. I would have found the post much improved if some version the “Really About” section had come first, rather than (or, better yet, in addition to) last.
In the “Deferring” post, the thesis of your post was the first sentence.
My professor’s favorite advice for giving presentations:
Tell ‘em what you’re gonna tell ‘em, then tell ‘em, then tell ‘em what you told ’em.
I’m not party to the FB post in question, but:
Defer had obvious and extremely useful applications and little to no lag time to try them, whereas training habits is inherently non-instantaneous.
Defer used social anxiety as an example (which I think many readers have experienced to one degree or another), whereas Notice is about … red barn roofs?
Defer had a super-catchy title, and may have gotten more clicks in the first place.
As an aside, part of me hopes that Notice and Defer constitute some kind of A/B testing, and that Brienne is figuring out how to make Really Awesome Posts, and is going to do so :D