One benefit of making every day the same it way heightens your senses for small physical and emotional small changes
My knees usually feel slightly heavier up these cafe steps, did I sleep well? I usually tweet three times walking to the gym, am I less extroverted today?
My knees usually feel slightly heavier up these cafe steps, did I sleep well? I usually tweet three times walking to the gym, am I less extroverted today?
My life is actually a hilarious balance between extreme consistency and extreme spontaneity. Every once in a while (4mo?) I randomly throw away everything move somewhere new and pick up entirely different hobbies and life. Then do it the same way every day until it happens again
eg I didn’t workout for a few years until a few months ago. But I’ve worked out several hours a day every day since then excepting one group retreat in the forest I hosted and one day when I was sick
Note for me it’s important that I can drop everything at any moment. I have all these systems setup to capture outlier upside immediately if it shows up (eg make high-conviction bets). Deer mindset. When nothing is popping up I’m okay just staying in consistent neutral forever
One benefit of this life is it gives you a lot of things you’re pretty competent at! By four months of training at something daily you’re hitting marginal returns, but also 4mo isn’t that long. If you do 3 things each day you can become pretty competent at 36 new things / year
https://twitter.com/nickcammarata/status/1417899352614375427
36 things / yr means 400+ things per decade that you know pretty competently with all the lingo of those who do it professionally. If you have 400 things like that people will constantly be shocked because any big topic they bring up you’ll have multiple competent skills in
eg you’re invited to a vacation where there’s cooking, singing, yoga, and mushroom hunting, and you can easily be the best in the group at all four, because getting to top 1% in something is easy in 4mo of hours a day practice and 400 things is big! (I picked things I don’t know)
whereas my naive impression is a lot of people spend a weekend or week on a new hobby, or a few years and make it a thing they do. But it’s rare to spend a few months, even though it seems like the Goldilocks zone (thinking aloud, this reasoning isn’t how I came to this schedule)
maybe the other benefit is that going from noob to pretty competent so often makes you pretty competent at meta-learning I think, and also really good at being wrong, because when you finally stop being wrong all the time you move on
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