by uncannymind | Mind Development
Two people do the same thing on the same morning. One of them has a streak. He knows what day he’s on. He’s had to talk himself into it twice this week and he did, which he’s quietly pleased about. The other one just did it, the way you’d put...
by uncannymind | Mind Development
You’ve read them. Maybe not all of them, but enough to have noticed they say roughly the same four things. You could probably reconstruct the outline from memory. And you still said yes on Tuesday. The natural conclusion is that you’re failing to...
by uncannymind | Mind Development
You’ve had the experience where a conversation just works. Ten minutes in and you’re finishing each other’s points. They get the thing you were half-saying before you’d finished saying it. You leave thinking: that’s a sharp person....
by uncannymind | Mind Development
Read this part first. Persistent unexplained tiredness is a medical symptom before it’s anything else. Thyroid problems, anaemia, sleep apnoea, diabetes, depression, and a long list of other conditions present exactly this way, and several of them are...
by uncannymind | Mind Development
Pick a fault you’ve tried to fix. Not a habit — a fault. Something about how you operate that you’ve decided is a problem. The interrupting. The sharpness when you’re tired. The way you go cold instead of saying the thing. The drinking a bit more...
by uncannymind | Mind Development
Estimate it. What proportion of the decisions you made yesterday were actually decided? Not the ones with obvious answers. The ones where you weighed something and chose. Most people’s first guess is somewhere around half, and they’re wrong by an order of...
