2026-03-04
Outputs are not root causes
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- A general pattern I'm noticing with trying to apply a lot of life advice:
- Time - Telling myself "value your time more" didn't cause me to value my time more. Actually caring about a goal, and failing multiple times, and becoming desparate, and reminding myself of the deadline - this is what is actually pushing me to value my time more.
- Self-esteem - Telling myself to "love myself" felt lame as fuck and didn't achieve much. Actually trying to cross moral boundaries that I thought I was fine with crossing made me feel bad. This reminded me that the values I think I have and the values I actually seem to have as implied by actions, are not the same.
- Stoicism - Telling myself to "be more stoic / unreactive" didn't work so great. I've never taken stoicism very seriously as a life philosophy anyway. For example, Naval Ravikant / Kapil Gupta seem to agree
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