http://agentyduck.blogspot.com/2014/12/how-to-train-noticing.html “I keep a search going on in the background for anything in the neighborhood of the experience I predicted. Odds are good I’ll miss several instances of weak contrary evidence, but as soon as I realize I’ve encountered one, I go into reflective attention so I’m aware of as many details of my immediate subjective experience as possible.”
The thing I’m having trouble with is: at some point in the future, the trigger I’m thinking about will happen. How will I notice/remember that that was a trigger? What can I do now, when the trigger has not yet happened, to make me remember later? I don’t think I know how to keep searches going in the background, or anything like that.
Partial solutions, to gesture at the gap: * Phone alarms for triggers that happen at a specific time (for the first few triggers, before the habit is formed) * Assign someone to watch me 24⁄7 and poke me in the side whenever a desired trigger happens * When I come up with an idea for a TAP, [my single-point-of-reference productivity Google Doc, under the “TAP” section, tells me to] close my eyes and imagine the trigger happening for 5 minutes
I’m confused by the number of posts on TAPs (excluding OP) that gloss over this part.
Hmm, these posts feel like they’re skipping over the step I’m asking about, though.
Like, I don’t know how to do either of these things:
http://agentyduck.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-art-of-noticing.html “Whenever you notice your trigger, make a precise physical gesture.”
http://agentyduck.blogspot.com/2014/12/how-to-train-noticing.html “I keep a search going on in the background for anything in the neighborhood of the experience I predicted. Odds are good I’ll miss several instances of weak contrary evidence, but as soon as I realize I’ve encountered one, I go into reflective attention so I’m aware of as many details of my immediate subjective experience as possible.”
The thing I’m having trouble with is: at some point in the future, the trigger I’m thinking about will happen. How will I notice/remember that that was a trigger? What can I do now, when the trigger has not yet happened, to make me remember later? I don’t think I know how to keep searches going in the background, or anything like that.
Partial solutions, to gesture at the gap:
* Phone alarms for triggers that happen at a specific time (for the first few triggers, before the habit is formed)
* Assign someone to watch me 24⁄7 and poke me in the side whenever a desired trigger happens
* When I come up with an idea for a TAP, [my single-point-of-reference productivity Google Doc, under the “TAP” section, tells me to] close my eyes and imagine the trigger happening for 5 minutes
I’m confused by the number of posts on TAPs (excluding OP) that gloss over this part.