Oh, and I can think of a few more:
Some time ago I learned about psychological safety and Crucial Conversations. Since then, I’ve seen them improving my life.
To test whether they actually work, I did a little experiment in my life. For some time, I played a little game where sometimes I followed the opposite advice to see what happened. And yeah, I saw the conversation quality go down. It really is not inconsequential to have a common purpose and being open to wild takes.
So yeah, I realized how powerful Crucial Conversations and Amy Edmonson’s research are and applied them to my life. And naturally my quality of life improved quite a bit.
Finding a good therapist. Within those sessions, some moments stand out: the ACT exercises that were experiential. Those exercises transformed many fucked up beliefs. I went from “the world is shit and I’m fucked” to “the world’s complex but I commit to be a kind person”.
I can’t recommend it enough: experiential ACT exercises.
Where to start? I’m not sure which option is the most user-friendly, but I have really liked using Typst. I’ve come to use it for all kinds of things, from reports at work to my CV as well as my ongoing TTRPG campaign.
To git gud with Typst, I started by reading the tutorial. While reading, I was thinking visibly (look up Project Zero and Visible Thinking Routines) about it. It took a couple of days of reading and thinking visibly and practicing for me to feel that I could use Typst quickly.
Are the documents as pretty as Word? I’d say so. I redid my CV with Typst and I think it’s the prettiest CV I’ve ever made. Additionally, my TTRPG dungeon keys are prettier than when I used Libre Office (in part because it’s easier to format stuff, so I format more than before).
Are there options for fonts and styles? Absolutely! Fonts are very easy to change. As to styles, it requires a bit of learning, but now I apply styles with functions. I use #set, #show, and custom functions to apply styles. For example, boxed text can be considered a style, and I made a custom function called boxed_text() that I just pass my text to. It takes a bit of setup, but for me it’s ridiculously easy to just pass my text to boxed_text() instead of clicking on stuff to apply styles. If you’re curious about my boxed_text() function, you can check it out here https://lemmy.ml/post/37628567/21680638
Edit: fixed the link
Oooooh. Those boxes would be useful. Thanks for taking the time to document them!
Huh. Interesting. It seems like you’re fully digital, then. Maybe I should try that sometime!
It sounds like you’ve got a comprehensive solution!
Do you prepare scenarios by exporting to PDFs? I ask because I tried using regular Markdown for my sessions but it didn’t work. I couldn’t get nice boxed text nor could I define when I wanted a page break. None of the Markdown solutions seemed as elegant as Quarto (which I know from learning to use R) and Typst (which seems a little simpler than Quarto). Maybe there are solutions that I missed.
I ask that, but that doesn’t mean that Markdown isn’t a great solution to many problems! In fact, my daily note-taking is done in Markdown!
In case you’re curious, here are my Typst settings. I write them at the top of every new scenario I build.
#set text(font: "Atkinson Hyperlegible Next")
#let title = [The Name of This New Scenario lol]
#set page(
header: align(right + horizon, title)
)
#set pagebreak(weak: true)
#let box_text(content) = block(
stroke: 1pt + black,
inset: 10pt,
radius: 4pt,
width: 100%,
content
)
#show "GM Note": phrase => strong(phrase)
This is why my school taught Getty-Dubay cursive…
Emily Nagoski’s Burnout has some practical advice, but the single most powerful thing you could be doing right now is mindfulness meditation.
Why? Because burnout usually comes associated with a set of bad experiences that we learn to shut out. That is why we need to re-learn to experience life instead of shutting it out.
How can you do it? I personally like the Healthy Minds app and program, but there are plenty online.
Other tips? Yes. Do Loving-Kindness meditation too. It makes you happy quickly and improves your relationships with people. This, in turn, improves your work.
How am I so sure? Check out Sonja Lyubomirsky’s meta-analyses. In them, she shows that the data overwhelmingly shows that happiness is associated with, temporally precedes, and experimentally induces success in work, relationships, and many other domains of life.
Finally, I’d suggest learning the basics of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. Why? Mindfulness will reconnect you with your experience and avoid rumination, but ACT will also ask you to find meaning in your life. Work can be meaningful if you’re not ruminating and you do the necessary values work. I love Hayes’ A Liberated Mind, but, again, there are other resources out there.
Do you know about Cynefin? Would you disagree if I say that religion is a complex Cynefin system and therefore can’t be entirely predictable? Would you say Lutheranism and the Theology of Liberation are equally as problematic as the KKK and Nazis?
As the other comment says, Anki already changes dynamically so that you study the hard stuff more. Just make sure to mark whether you got the answer and how hard it was to get it.
Now, here’s something that could help you, perhaps more than any multiple choice exam could ever help you with: when studying, make sure to not only blurt the answer but also use elaborative recall. In other words, make an effort to think and do so mindfully (rather than mindlessly).
Why? You learn through effort and through mindfully (and not mindlessly) connecting the new knowledge with what you already know.
You could even structure your elaborative recall through Visible Thinking Routines.
How does that look like?
Anything is possible if you can do anything…
Is there any truth to the post? Like I know events like FIFA soccer games or the Olympics can serve as platforms for people with a message. Sometimes there’s someone running on the stadium. Sometimes there’s flags.
I ask because I had the idea that Lollapalooza, while a money-making business, is also progressive. It’s progressive at least in comparison with FIFA or Trump.
How did those ideas relate for you:
In other words, can you elaborate?
Where’s my Lemmy Gold when I need it
Yeah. I don’t think this cool guide is better than the lemon squeezer, unfortunately.
To understand your question, do you mean in general? Or to go into the details of how it looks to apply the ideas? In general, I’d say my advice is to read the book Crucial Conversations and the book The Fearless Organization and learn the ideas in there. How does it look? From afar, Crucial Conversations and psychological safety look like better conversations. I can’t say they’re perfect, but at least I avoid some pits I fell into before.