Mini Blog Post 1: The value of experiments — Neel Nanda
An incredibly useful way to improve the way that I’m living my life is to run experiments on myself. Where by “experiment”, I mean to explicitly change something about how I live my life, follow this plan for some period of time, and then explicitly track how it went, and what I learned from this. F
An incredibly useful way to improve the way that I’m living my life is to run experiments on myself. Where by “experiment”, I mean to explicitly change something about how I live my life, follow this plan for some period of time, and then explicitly track how it went, and what I learned from this. For example, writing a mini blog post every day for two weeks, to see what it’s like to be less of a perfectionist! Or, to see if coworking could make me more productive, sign up for a focusmate.com account and try a few sessions. Or see if exercise can improve my mental health, by ensuring I go to…
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