I think that I’m going to really need to stretch to improve my flexibility
Ditto. I was in a good routine of arm and shoulder stretches for a while, because of the guitar, but I didn’t succeed when I tried to fold some more general stuff (for cycling—legs, glutes, core), and then I trailed off. I wonder how I could get the habit to stick. I suspect it would have to start with normalizing my daily routine in the first place.
I was thinking about scheduling a Less Wrong Meditation Day
That sounds great. I’d definitely want to try it first, to experiment with positions and techniques, but the idea is very appealing.
Any suggestions that’ll make it better than −1?
The people who voted you down would probably have better ideas than I do, but I can guess. The description of effects may not need to be so detailed as to include repetition; recording the patterns might suffice. In the part where you mention the two major poles of LWers and your preference, I’d like to see either more acknowledgement of the counterarguments or less opining. That is, some people clearly disagree with you, because they belong to the other pole; you can strengthen your case by noting why they disagree and why you stand by your position. But I’m not sure that point is needed at all—you could just talk about why meditation is useful to rationalists, regardless of their origins. This is the thing I was needling you about in another subthread, and why I was needling you about it. :)
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But hopefully LW starts moving in a more Buddhist and effectiveness-oriented direction.
Even if you don’t associate Buddhism and Buddhist techniques with religion of the sort most LWers disagree with, some of them will, and this could bring up hackles. Failing that, it’s also advocacy of a general personal philosophy; advocacy of specific techniques in order to move towards specific goals might be better received.
Ditto. I was in a good routine of arm and shoulder stretches for a while, because of the guitar, but I didn’t succeed when I tried to fold some more general stuff (for cycling—legs, glutes, core), and then I trailed off. I wonder how I could get the habit to stick. I suspect it would have to start with normalizing my daily routine in the first place.
That sounds great. I’d definitely want to try it first, to experiment with positions and techniques, but the idea is very appealing.
The people who voted you down would probably have better ideas than I do, but I can guess. The description of effects may not need to be so detailed as to include repetition; recording the patterns might suffice. In the part where you mention the two major poles of LWers and your preference, I’d like to see either more acknowledgement of the counterarguments or less opining. That is, some people clearly disagree with you, because they belong to the other pole; you can strengthen your case by noting why they disagree and why you stand by your position. But I’m not sure that point is needed at all—you could just talk about why meditation is useful to rationalists, regardless of their origins. This is the thing I was needling you about in another subthread, and why I was needling you about it. :)
Similarly:
Even if you don’t associate Buddhism and Buddhist techniques with religion of the sort most LWers disagree with, some of them will, and this could bring up hackles. Failing that, it’s also advocacy of a general personal philosophy; advocacy of specific techniques in order to move towards specific goals might be better received.