“Explore More: A Bag of Tricks to Keep Your Life on the Rails” by Shoshannah Tekofsky

At least, if you happen to be near me in brain space.

What advice would you give your younger self?

That was the prompt for a class I taught at PAIR 2024. About a quarter of participants ranked it in their top 3 of courses at the camp and half of them had it listed as their favorite.

I hadn’t expected that.

I thought my life advice was pretty idiosyncratic. I never heard of anyone living their life like I have. I never encountered this method in all the self-help blogs or feel-better books I consumed back when I needed them.

But if some people found it helpful, then I should probably write it all down.

Why Listen to Me Though?

I think it's generally worth prioritizing the advice of people who have actually achieved the things you care about in life. I can’t tell you if that's me [...]

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Outline:

(00:46) Why Listen to Me Though?

(04:22) Pick a direction instead of a goal

(12:00) Do what you love but always tie it back

(17:09) When all else fails, apply random search

The original text contained 3 images which were described by AI.

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First published:
September 28th, 2024

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/uwmFSaDMprsFkpWet/explore-more-a-bag-of-tricks-to-keep-your-life-on-the-rails

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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