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Stumbled upon this today...

Anders Sandberg / asa@nada.kth.se

http://www.aleph.se/Trans/Individual/Mental/rules.html

Mental Heuristics

A heuristic is a "rule-of-thumb", advice that helps an AI program or human think and act more efficiently by directing thinking in an useful direction.

Some of these heuristics are age-old wisdom, bordering on cliche, but most are actually helpful.

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If you want something done, do it yourself

Comment: Obviously true, and doing it is usually very good for your self esteem. A surprising amount of work can be done this way, and experts are not always necessary. However, there is a risk of becoming overworked if you try to do everything yourself - we all need other people after all.

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Never procrastinate anything you can do right now

Comment: Very powerful. There are many things that can be fixed or solved with a minimum of effort, but are often pushed aside as unimportant. Unfortunately they won't go away, and in time the feelings of guilt for not having done them will make you even less likely of fixing the problems.

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When you have several things you could be doing and don't know which to do: Just do any one of them!

Comments: If you cannot decide between two or more possibilities, then there is a good chance that the differences don't matter. However, most people begin to hesitate in this kind of situation (Fredkin's paradox). If you are conscious of this, you can just choose one choice randomly or according to some standard method.

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Always assume that you will succeed

Comments: If you don't expect to succeed in an endeavor, then you will not do your best and will not notice possible solutions, while if you feel that you will eventually succeed you will concentrate all your power at the problem. Of course, there is no point in attempting what you cannot do, a certain amount of self-knowledge is always needed.

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If you can't find a solution, change the rules.

Comment: Remember that there are no no-win scenarios.

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If you cannot do anything about something, there is no point in worrying about it.

Comment: Worrying is stressful, and in most situations doesn't accomplish anything - it just wastes energy. Instead of worrying about things, either do something about them or find ways around the problem. One useful idea is to write down your worries on slips of paper, and then put them away in a box. Regularly, once a week or so, you open the box and see what you can do about the worries that are still relevant.

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Do not rely on conscious decisions for speed - Just Do It

Comments: The conscious mind is surprisingly slow, conscious choices and actions are delayed for a significant time (a reflex acts within some tens of milliseconds, an unconscious reaction to external stimuli circa 100 milliseconds and a conscious choice several seconds). The duty of the conscious mind is usually to inhibit rather than start action, and if you become too conscious of what you are doing in a tense situation you will hesitate or slow down.

It is a good idea to learn to rely on your non-conscious mind, since our conscious mind is slow and has very low bandwidth while the other systems in our brains have a tremendous capacity and actually do most of the real work anyway.

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Don't try to explain away your actions for yourself

Comment: While we often do things we do not want to explain our real motivations for before other people (out of fear of embarrassment, anger or loss of image), it is a bad idea to try to convince oneself that the motivation was anything different from what it was. It will only reduce your self-knowledge with deliberate misinformation, and it is often valuable to understand what motivations you have (even if you dislike them or would never admit them in public).

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Listen to your intuition, but do not believe it unconditionally

Comments: Intuitive or emotional thinking, analogies, "gut feelings" or "flashes of inspiration" can sometimes give fantastic new insights or show problems from a new direction. Unfortunately such thinking isn't always reliable, and quite often completely wrong! Such insights should never be accepted because you admire their beauty or they are intuitive, only because they fit with reality.

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Work

This week was great! We successfully hosted the Strickingz guys at my place, we tricked and hung out all week! We got a chance to relax over Christian's a little bit. We went swimming over his place and ate like, tons of food. We also messed with his weird webcam thing on his computer and took hilarious pictures. Hopefully those will be posted in time.
Currently Strickingz are over Devon's house in Heath, MA. If you'd like to hang out or train with FF and Strikingz make an effort to contact Devon. Best way I'd imagine would be through TT or the tagboard on the side of this site. Maybe facebook would be another good option.

But all that aside I'll be back to work on Monday. I also have tons of projects I'm working on.
Site maintenence
video tutorials
Andy R (elim) sampler
FF and Strikingz sampler from this week
Devon is also working on a video project. It'll be pretty epic in nature. And with all THAT aside I'm trying to read a certain book and get back on my regular training regimen. So I'm pretty busy. Everything will be posted with time but please be patient...

YEAH!

Here's the low down on some session locations, and options-

Trevor:

Haime. Yes.

I'm recovering from NJG today, but it's not that bad.

Tuesday Over The Top has open gym

Wed Glouster gymnastics and showtime cheer have open gym

Mon-Fri Holliston open gym is 1:00-3:00

My grass and trampoline is always open

Maybe other options in your area?

Watcha think capn?


Springfield weather:

Forecast Conditions High °F Low °F Precip. Chance High Temperatures Low Temperatures Precipitation Wind Speed Today Aug 10 Isolated T-Storms 91° 71° 30% 91°F Check Flight Delays Tue Aug 11 Scattered T-Storms 88° 66° 60% 88°F Wed Aug 12 Isolated T-Storms 86° 64° 30% 86°F Thu Aug 13 Partly Cloudy 85° 64° 10% 85°F Fri Aug 14 Isolated T-Storms 82° 67° 30% 82°F Sat Aug 15 Partly Cloudy 84° 65° 20% 84°

Cape Cod weather:

Forecast Conditions High °F Low °F Precip. Chance High Temperatures Low Temperatures Precipitation Wind Speed Today Aug 10 Isolated T-Storms 83° 71° 30% 83°F Check Flight Delays Tue Aug 11 Scattered T-Storms 79° 67° 60% 79°F Wed Aug 12 AM Clouds / PM Sun 75° 64° 20% 75°F Thu Aug 13 Mostly Sunny 72° 64° 10% 72°F Fri Aug 14 Isolated T-Storms 75° 67° 30% 75°F Sat Aug 15 Partly Cloudy 75° 66° 20% 75°F

YO!

This week is trick week you guys!
I don't have to work and strickingz will be at my house all week. Its also possible my good buddy James Yu (Crazyasian) will be around for a little while too. I plan on really beefing up the site, taking loads of pictures, making a trick sampler with the team and friends and just hanging out and having a great time all week!
Maybe we should go to beaches, and swimming pools, fields, dojos, and gymnastic centers. Nightly we should play xbox360 at my house. (but you must control your volume level because Hilary still has to work this week. chill with the yelling...)

Im sure we'll have a great week. If you want to get involved and help with session planning (or offer ideas for session locations and times) post the basics on the tagboard and I'll work on it. Check the website at least once a day, and usually at night before bed to stay updated.

Im free all week so either post on the tagboard or call me if you wanna hang out.