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@AskYatharth FWIW solving getting up early is downstream of breaking my caffeine addiction for me. I don't know what your caffeine consumption is like, but if you drink something caffeinated every day that's probably the best line of attack.
@DRMacIver fwiw, i kinda solved the unstable equilibrium problem by realising that waking up early isn’t a problem to solve once and have it going at all it's an active doing https://t.co/xr9BC8smrY
@DRMacIver like working out. every run is an active doing, and every time i do this doing, i get the benefits for that day likewise, waking up early is an active doing. every time i do this doing, i get a benefit of that morning
@DRMacIver another analogy: habits are like plants when you plant a rose, you don’t expect it to live forever it lives for as long as it does, and for those two weeks, you got to enjoy it the habit worked it gave you the benefits for as long as it existed
@DRMacIver then if you want to plant the rose again, you can, and in this way, you keep renewing your garden i find this removes the “problem” that losing habits caused we expected once we planted a habit, it would stay there forever, and when it stopped, we felt it was for nothing
@DRMacIver we don’t see how it gave us the benefits the 1-2 days or weeks that it did the "problem" of unstable equilibrium solutions is at least in part we have a totally wrong model of it the nerd STEM model world, where it is a *problem*, to be *solved* https://t.co/xr9BC8smrY
@DRMacIver it isn’t. it’s an active doing every day. every pile of dirt you move from one hole to the next is work. knowing how to do it doesn’t mean shit knowing how to do your email doesn’t mean shit. it’s in the actual doing that life is won it hurt to do https://t.co/SYz727Tt2V
@DRMacIver sometimes i realise i can delete things from the day (evening chores) that let me nap and reliably continue a schedule other places, it *hurts* to wake up early and it doesn't feel stable, that’s different that’s not having something sustainable in the first place
@DRMacIver unstable, but sustainable equilibrium ≠ unsustainable equilibrium it’s one thing to be atop an unstable perch, that you can get back on top again you are NOT the same as the guy who is trying to barrel over the hill to get to the top but ends up rolling over
@DRMacIver merging branch into thread https://t.co/UaEpH4jv7t
@DRMacIver what im saying is: our bodymind ~correctly perceived the problem as being not worth it or impossible to solve as stated as stated = the expectation that if only i get the right system, it'll work, and if it stops working, it wasn’t worth it https://t.co/ZYBZwizq8W
@DRMacIver what im saying is: our bodymind ~correctly perceived the problem as being not worth it or impossible to solve as stated as stated = the expectation that if only i get the right system, it'll work, and if it stops working, it wasn’t worth it https://t.co/ZYBZwizq8W
@DRMacIver but the og problem of waking early was a dingus problem with dingus solutions doing nothing about the problem was the right solution and instead ditching the worldview that tried to solve that problem and adopt another one