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What is a habit/thing/technique that most people would benefit from, in your experience/observation? What are some habits that would be best avoided too? (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 3 days ago by Achyu@lemmy.sdf.org to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Thought about it, snce it's near New Year's.

In my opinion, exercising/training/stretching atleast once a week would be a good thing for most people.

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[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

Play Dumb, even if you’re the smartest person in the room.

[–] fool@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago

Bad linked article. Judging by the amount of sets of three bullets

in: forms
like: these,

along with the "in conclusion" prepositions and not-very-useful-but-broad headings, it was written by AI. :(

Most online sources about this Schopenhauer suggestion seem to be either AI-generated, mildly superficial (i.e. basically only talks about Schopenhauer's mom calling him an annoying intellectual type), or MBA-manipulator-esque (e.g. Get Rich! 48 Laws of Power! Buy Today!)...

which is a bummer since scaling humility up and down can be a really useful instrument to get things done. Just be agreeably approachable, but be careful if you outshine others, especially if ego gets in the way. Idk, i wish there was a more compelling source for this

[–] MacroCyclo@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

Fortunately for me, this comes naturally to me. No need to pretend.

[–] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 days ago

Man, I need to read Schopenhauer. I'm not especially well read in Philosophy, but I heard somewhere that Schopenhauer is one of the ones to read if you want to understand polemical writing, and that intrigues me.

From a pure nerd point of view, I will say I got a hell of a lot smarter when I got better at being dumb. By that, I mean that I allowed myself to feel less anxious about appearing smart and I found it easier to enjoy learning from the cool people I knew when I could say "no, I don't know much about that, but I'd love to learn more". I also got to spend more time with my own thoughts, reflecting on my ideas, rather than focussing on acting a certain way.