Mental Heuristics

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

If you want something done, do it yourself

Never procrastinate anything you can do right now

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

Always assume that you will succeed

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

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

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

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.

Don't try to explain away your actions for yourself

Listen to your intuition, but do not believe it unconditionally

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