This was a more embarrassing question than I was expecting… well, here it goes.
Who the hell do you think we are?
Do the impossible, break the unbreakable
Row, row, fight the power!
Kick reason to the curb and do the impossible.
These three are straight from Gurren Lagann. I use them often as mental rally cries when I feel I’m at loss for hope or about to give up on something.
The first is a vague “don’t give up and persevere” mostly for getting grit in the moment.
The second is more for my long term plans that are a long way from my reach (I know it’s a misquote, but I like it more expressed this way.
The third I always interpreted as “kick common sense to the curb and think a way to do the impossible”, I use it for situations where I see no way of winning and have to make me think a way anyway.
Shut up and just do the impossible.
From HPMoR and Lesswrong, when I have to solve something I’m certain I can’t, and the price for failure is high. Most of times I used I managed to at least make the situation better.
I can do anything if I study hard enough!
I can do anything if I think hard enough!
From HPMoR, courtesy of general Sunshine. The second is more or less as the one above, the first one is for pushing through plans or reach goals that would ask me to study for a long time.
Are you making an extraordinary effort?
Are you doing everything you can?
Less pleasant than the ones above. I use these two to both step up my game and take ideas seriously.
The first one is from Lesswrong, but I had been using the second one from a while already, so they got paired up. I got the second one from reading something about Greta Thumberg, and it hit me that it was the first “ordinary” person I saw described in details as one that was actually taking the climate change issue seriously and behaving as she believed that much was at risk.
(To clarify: I don’t think she’s the only one doing so, but her behaviour had struck me as impressively more coherent than what one would usually expect and left an impression)
They seem to put on me a lot of stress though, since they require me feeling like everything depends just on my ability of breaking my limits, giving my 100% effort, and then somehow reach past that an order of magnitude more. I’m using it only on my current life goal. So far my results ramped up.
Are you trying to argue you are right or to understand where the truth is?
This is my “rationality mindset, on!” mantra, it seems to be pretty effective on stopping certain bias when they activate and make me look at a question with the right mentality. I’ve often changed my mind and ideas when I used it, so I think it works pretty well.
Remember you can choose not to care.
Remember you can regulate your emotions.
I use these when I’m feeling bad for something I can’t change or that I don’t think I should be feeling bad about, or when I’m in the grip of anger or some other emotional state that’s hindering me.
I’m not 100% sure it’s the healthiest thing I could say to myself, but it did got me through a light depression when I was a teenager and stabilised my mood a lot, so it stuck.
This was a more embarrassing question than I was expecting… well, here it goes.
These three are straight from Gurren Lagann. I use them often as mental rally cries when I feel I’m at loss for hope or about to give up on something.
The first is a vague “don’t give up and persevere” mostly for getting grit in the moment.
The second is more for my long term plans that are a long way from my reach (I know it’s a misquote, but I like it more expressed this way.
The third I always interpreted as “kick common sense to the curb and think a way to do the impossible”, I use it for situations where I see no way of winning and have to make me think a way anyway.
From HPMoR and Lesswrong, when I have to solve something I’m certain I can’t, and the price for failure is high. Most of times I used I managed to at least make the situation better.
From HPMoR, courtesy of general Sunshine. The second is more or less as the one above, the first one is for pushing through plans or reach goals that would ask me to study for a long time.
Less pleasant than the ones above. I use these two to both step up my game and take ideas seriously.
The first one is from Lesswrong, but I had been using the second one from a while already, so they got paired up. I got the second one from reading something about Greta Thumberg, and it hit me that it was the first “ordinary” person I saw described in details as one that was actually taking the climate change issue seriously and behaving as she believed that much was at risk.
(To clarify: I don’t think she’s the only one doing so, but her behaviour had struck me as impressively more coherent than what one would usually expect and left an impression)
They seem to put on me a lot of stress though, since they require me feeling like everything depends just on my ability of breaking my limits, giving my 100% effort, and then somehow reach past that an order of magnitude more. I’m using it only on my current life goal. So far my results ramped up.
This is my “rationality mindset, on!” mantra, it seems to be pretty effective on stopping certain bias when they activate and make me look at a question with the right mentality. I’ve often changed my mind and ideas when I used it, so I think it works pretty well.
I use these when I’m feeling bad for something I can’t change or that I don’t think I should be feeling bad about, or when I’m in the grip of anger or some other emotional state that’s hindering me.
I’m not 100% sure it’s the healthiest thing I could say to myself, but it did got me through a light depression when I was a teenager and stabilised my mood a lot, so it stuck.