talk-end-of-procrastination/slides/disabled.md

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Try whatever comes?

Depth First Search
Random Maze
Speed
Restart

On average this takes several lifetimes.


Leaders Eat Last

by Simon Sinek

Book cover

Arousal addiction

(not about sexual arousal)

Addiction to new, stronger stimuli.

e.g. by setting bigger and bigger goals.


Discipline


Baby Elephant Syndrome

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Young elephant gets tied to a tree by a thin rope which it can't break.

As an adult, it is constrained by the same thin rope and it doesn't break free.

Because it learned it is no use to even try.


TOOL: Daily Heroism

[Philip Zimbardo]

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Take a small step out of your comfort zone.

Daily.

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Why?

  • grows your ability to act, step out of the crowd
  • supports fulfilling your vision and maintaining discipline

It makes the elephant jump before it realizes
the hole is too deep for comfort.

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My Heroism

Game of smalltalk

  • chat up random people
  • do it before you rationalize a reason to back out

Real world

is complex and ever-changing.

Mental model

is our understanding of the world and its rules.

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Mental models have varying levels of objectivity,

i.e. how much they correspond to reality.