It's fine if it doesn't happen every day. Don't be obsessed about this stuff. Forgive yourself if you ever behave sub-optimally. You're not a machine, neither should you be one.
I like this. My view is I aint doing it if it aint a system.
A system: change diet to always have at least 3 veg per meal. Do that until you die.
A non-system: skip a meal and just eat soup for 30 days and try to drop 10kg.
Not diet advice and some people may need to drop weight quickly under doctor advise. But the general idea is to avoid will-power driven outcomes and rely on habit and system driven outcomes.
Not clever org mode needed. To develop a habit just do it every day. Track it somehow. Make it not too onerous. Forgive slip ups.
Me neither until I changed habit. It just means (a) having the ingredients - in season food boxes help here forcing you to do something with all the food and (b) chop (if needed) / cook (if needed) / eat.
The weird trick here is you dont need to win masterchef or even make cafe standard food. Chuck it all in a frying pan and mix and then eat. I find the mix of flavour from variety makes it quite edible.
If I have to use a skillet AND an oven that's too much work. One appliance max :)
This was written with ChatGPT, probably 4o specifically - does that not jump out at anyone else? Maybe just me because I throw productivity/spirituality stuff at it all the time and get this kind of language back.
"This isn’t a method I’ve perfected. It’s one I’m actively living. And every time I return to it, something shifts.
Try it for a week. Not to optimize, but to notice what becomes possible."
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Tyranny starts with the best of intentions.
This lesson shows up periodically in different contexts. In the case of OODA, it was fighter pilot dogfighting training.
It’s a good practice to build into different parts of life.
A system: change diet to always have at least 3 veg per meal. Do that until you die.
A non-system: skip a meal and just eat soup for 30 days and try to drop 10kg.
Not diet advice and some people may need to drop weight quickly under doctor advise. But the general idea is to avoid will-power driven outcomes and rely on habit and system driven outcomes.
Not clever org mode needed. To develop a habit just do it every day. Track it somehow. Make it not too onerous. Forgive slip ups.
The weird trick here is you dont need to win masterchef or even make cafe standard food. Chuck it all in a frying pan and mix and then eat. I find the mix of flavour from variety makes it quite edible.
If I have to use a skillet AND an oven that's too much work. One appliance max :)
How insightful! When’s the masterclass drop?
$0.02: the devil's in the details.
"This isn’t a method I’ve perfected. It’s one I’m actively living. And every time I return to it, something shifts.
Try it for a week. Not to optimize, but to notice what becomes possible."