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JDBCool t1_j4woigd wrote

Reply to comment by johnsolomon in [Image] Do it scared by kriskoeh

Do it with minimal effort and get chewed out.

And look at it again and think "how can I improve minimal effort so that I won't get chewed out".

Innovation 101. Laziness is key.

Not a joke, why did we automate things? We don't want to do it ourselves, so we made machines to do it for us.

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SuspiciousNoisySubs t1_j4wm07t wrote

Reply to comment by TreatThompson in The simplest things in our youth become blessings in old age [Discussion] by TreatThompson

I just try to leave things better than I found them, to be honest.

What's been a little unsettling is I've completely changed perspective on a bunch of things that has almost left me out of touch with who I was. On top of realizing how fallible or memories are and how our senses are borderline untrustworthy, I just try to make the most of what's around, get through the day and not worry too much about the big picture...

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TreatThompson OP t1_j4wiiyo wrote

Reply to comment by SuspiciousNoisySubs in The simplest things in our youth become blessings in old age [Discussion] by TreatThompson

I’m glad it resonated with you! 😄

If you don’t mind me asking, being in your 40s, what are one of those things that’s a focus for you?

Just curious about if your perspective is different now on certain areas than it was 10 years ago. Like maybe family and friends means a lot more!

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[deleted] t1_j4whj6b wrote

Reply to [Image] Do it scared by kriskoeh

This chart is likely a lot more profound than I'm able to give it credit for, right now. On account of how absolutely scared of everything I am at this point.

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PhinsGraphicDesigner t1_j4wd06j wrote

Reply to comment by EdgiPing in [Image] Who is the driver of you by AvantgardeSavage

The book “Thinking Fast and Slow” by Daniel Kahneman, talks about a somewhat similar concept that humans have 2 types of thinking. Type 1 is unconscious and rapid. This is where our quick biases come in to make thing easier. Hard thinking takes a lot of energy, so it is beneficial to have instinctual behaviors that don’t take a lot of effort or energy. These are things we don’t really have to think about much. Something like small talk, walking, doing a mind-dumbing, or a repetitive task at work that’ve you practically memorized and can do while sleeping. Have you ever been driving home and just blank out and kinda wake up at your destination thinking how did I get here? That’s type 1 thinking taking over. This is evolutionarily beneficial. When a predator comes, your instincts tell you to run away. You don’t want to or need to sit there thinking about all the ways a lion can rip your body in half, because then you’ve already been attacked.

Type 2 is more intense, conscious, deeper thinking. This is something like a complex math problem. Quick biases cannot solve these issues and you need to stop what your doing and figure it out.

Try this out: have someone walk around the room and have a basic conversation with them. Those are both type 1 activities and can be done easily and mindlessly. Now ask that person (who’s hopefully not a math wizard) to multiply something ridiculous like 437 times 671. 99.9% of the time, they will stop walking to try to think about answer the question. Type 2 thinking has just been activated which takes conscious effort.

The human brain is lazy and tries whenever possibly to use type 1 thinking. This is probably 90% of our thinking. Type 2 is harder and happens less frequently.

Much like this meme, we like to think we are always rational type 2 thinkers, but really most of our lives is dictated by the biases of type 1. We go around in our life using these biases we have learned / been taught using type 1 thinking because it’s easier. That is until a more complex problem arises that requires type 2 thinking.

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PhinsGraphicDesigner t1_j4wbi7b wrote

Reply to comment by AvantgardeSavage in [Image] Who is the driver of you by AvantgardeSavage

I’m here to back up Scandalous Socialist. This is some legitimately good advice, and it’s a shame to see people downvoting this when it could actually help a lot of people.

I think you would really like the book “Thinking Fast and Slow” by Daniel Kahneman, although maybe you’ve already read it.

It talks about a somewhat similar concept that humans have 2 types of thinking. Type 1 is unconscious, quick biases, and rapid thinking. Things we don’t really have to think about much. Something like small talk or walking. Type 2 is more intense, conscious, deeper thinking. This is something like a complex math problem. The human brain is lazy and tries whenever possibly to use type 1 thinking. This is probably 90% of our thinking. Type 2 is harder and happens less frequently.

Much like this meme, we like to think we are always rational type 2 thinkers, but really most of our lives is dictated by type 1. We go around in our life using type 1 thinking until a more complex problem arises that requires type 2 thinking.

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