With the way the pace of my life is moving, I feel like I haven’t had much time to reflect on longer term accomplishments and lessons. So I thought doing an annual review is a great chance for me to reflect on the past year and figure out what I’m doing right and what I’m…
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Learning is one of those funny things that we never learn how to do — we just do it. As children, we somehow learn to read, do math, and play sports all without thinking too much about how to learn or what it feels like to learn. Learning is just a natural thing when you’re…
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It’s funny how after so many years of being in school, there’s always something new to learn — especially about learning. You would think that after more than 20 years of schooling somehow I would have learned every tip and trick, but nope, my ignorance seems to know no bounds. Recently I rediscovered a technique…
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If you’ve read my last post, a good model for human behavior is that of a moist robot. We’re nothing more than mere automatons (or automata) except that we’re wet and squishy. This post is about another common behavior among us squishy automatons: consistency and commitment. Influence by Cialdini describes this tendency in detail as…
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Scott Adams has this really memorable term for how to think about people: moist robots. Moist because — well, we’re wet and squishy. Robots because there are certain predictable behaviors that we repeat. In situations like A, most people do f(A). In situation; in situations like B, most people will do f(B). Sounds very robot-like…