Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.
—David Allen, GTD for Teens
The more I hold in my head, the more my head flips around between thoughts, the less focused I am, the less productive I am.
Just write the thought down, bring it to a (temporary) closure, and focus on the task at hand.
Might get better in a couple of hours
The weather, or me?
—Source forgotten, or maybe it was just my head
… people judge an experience largely based on how they felt at its peak (i.e., its most intense point) and at its end, rather than based on the total sum or average of every moment of the experience.
These are three relationships I have had all my life – U1, A1, and A2. They are all equally closely related. All of them did something terrible recently – together – that has ruined these relationships.
The question is, are the relationships equally spoiled? Or, despite their joint betrayal, I should treat them differently based on the ‘sum total’ of the past experiences?
Continue reading Personal relationships & the peak-end rule – a case study
Head: We can either go out and watch a movie, or have sex tonight. I don’t have energy for both. Which do you prefer, body?
Body: I’m just curling up in the duvet and sleeping. You do what you want.
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“Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.”
— Jean Racine