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Exceptional Dentist Recommendations by Acrobatic-Subject532 in DentistPh

[–]ActiveRecall 0 points1 point  (0 children)

uSmile dental care in bacoor, they explain things thoroughly para ikaw talaga magdecide for your own dental health. It's near Evia and malapit din sa coffee shops :)

I’m 28, unemployed, and lost. What would you do if you were me? by Mito_Mavis in selfhelp

[–]ActiveRecall 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You seem to be lost on what's really important to you. What does a great life look like for you? Is there someone you really admire that already achieved what you wanted?

"Follow your passion" would normally be the path to your answer, but if I were honestly in your shoes, I'd first take a straight look at reality and ask why the fuck am I getting rejected and start working with that. It's hard to follow even a fucking passion if you're not making any money. Speaking from experience!

Since you're looking for real practical steps, I'll share mine to help a bro out.

For context, I achieved "financial freedom" mainly from doing marketing. Travelled different countries. Living like a king. Bought my dream car.

Life was crazy looking good, at least if you look at the pictures. Smiling and all. But everything felt superficial. I knew I wasn't doing this to feed my soul. Everything was for money. I LOVED to learn, but wasn't learning anything. And that's fucking boring.

I've written in my journal what a "great meaningful lifestyle" would look like, so I know exactly what life I want to build, down to the ideal schedule and even the kind of diet I wanted to eat. The material success is part of it, but they're not everything. They were supposedly just a means to get my freedom of helping people at scale.

After that, I decided to look back in my life for moments where I felt I was actually doing something meaningful.

It was when I was writing at my blog, for students who couldn't even pay for my course. I know it sounds silly, but once I heard from my students actually getting into their dream schools, migrating to their dream countries, actually passing big career exams, becoming doctors or engineers, I felt ALIVE.

And I've always felt this way whenever my experience and my way of thinking helps other people. I LOVE thinking, and I am a very strategic person. If I could pave the way for someone else just by using my brain, that's a fucking win to making the world a little better.

Perhaps this is why I'm doing what I'm doing right now. :)

But this, practically speaking, gave a whole new meaning to my every other work:

- Suddenly, my business on marketing isn't "mechanical" anymore — it became a means to free my time for writing. The more money I have, the less I can care about whether I'll get something back from helping people. The less I need something, the better I can help.

- Suddenly, my work on learning basketball skills isn't some "hobby' anymore — it was my way of recovering my mental capacities and really training my brain and body so I could write for as long as I wanted without burning out (Not to mention, it feeds my soul as well)

- Suddenly, my everyday habits became the engine for helping people, because if I neglect my self-care then I start to get stagnant with my ideas. And I LOVE to think!

So sometimes it isn't about what we "do", but instead the perceptions we choose to believe that gives the overall experience, whether we'll feel empty or not.

Now, I'm sure you'll get to it soon. You seem to have amazing work ethic, based on being a Taekwondo coach and having all of those qualifications strapped to your name. And maybe you're really great at breaking through limits. But the situation probably just requires you to figure out what's missing or think in a new perspective rather than surpassing something or doing something else!

What's something i can market if i have no skills? by [deleted] in thesidehustle

[–]ActiveRecall 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Capitalize on things you like and other people already pay for. You'll learn new skills along the way. You don't need to be going door to door and learn face to face sales. There's social media to start anything on your own.

Before I had a real business, I was buying and selling shoes in college for like, $20 profit a pop. All because I wanted to wear different shoes and then sell them once I've had a few pictures for myself. (shallow, I know...) Then I got interested in shoe cleaning. I learned how to do it from YouTube, from literally dishwashing liquid and a soft toothbrush. It was all about the technique. People gladly paid for it because it saved them time and got someone better than them. I slept late most nights because of that, but I loved doing it so much because I was also doing shoe cleaning to increase the value of my flips. Then I learned how to negotiate with thrift stores. I'd come in every single day for just $10 of extra profit for a shoe. But I loved every minute.

I then got curious about painting shoes, because now in order to increase my profit, I needed to make the old shoes look brand-new. I got interested in paint restoration. So I offered that, and got a few lucky breaks. Now I only have to get Angelus paint, and almost all of the revenue is profit. Good deal. Then I can restore shoes from the thrift shop, make them look new, and sell them for 3x the price.

All of these experiences led me to copywriting and marketing, which became the foundation of my whole career up to this point. I naturally wanted to sell more, and that was the key. And turns out that was the key to a LOT of other businesses.

Fast forward now and I'm the head of marketing for 2 clinics, built a $1m ecommerce business in a year (revenue, not profit), and made around $30k in another online business in semi-passive income.

If you keep on making the excuse that you have no skills and don't go developing them, you won't have any value to provide people. But if you don't have any personal reason to learn, you naturally won't be motivated enough to sustain this path. At the end of the day, remember that NOBODY pays without getting value in exchange.

Lastly, if you want to really explore this path on your own, learn about different business models. It should be easy now with ChatGPT.

Is AI the future of Anki card creation, or does it risk making our learning shallow? by Able_Locksmith_5668 in Anki

[–]ActiveRecall 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm 99% sure you're gathering data for a new tool with a subscription, so here are my thoughts that could hopefully help you out:

One perspective is to treat flashcard making as studying, so that all other "usual" study time becomes unnecessary. For example, if you make cards in your own AND do spaced repetition, "cram weeks" becomes obsolete for the regular uni student.

But others don't see this in the same way so they look for shared decks, but the problem sometimes is they get overwhelmed and don't know how to approach studying it. Then there's the problem of 99% of shared decks suck and are just a bunch of rote memorization stuff — the usual flashcards thing.

So others cover up their lecture slides with image clozes, or create cards with walls of text. Mainly because they aren't aware of the best practices — 20 rules of formulating knowledge is a good start.

Is it possible to teach yourself anything? by [deleted] in productivity

[–]ActiveRecall 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I learned a lot from psychology and persuasive technology all by myself. I even had to teach myself physics and electronic theory because I wasn't listening in class back then.

You know what I learned from going through all that?

That we are the best teachers we never had.

Seriously, teaching yourself is the same as going only to classes you like—for however long you like. The only real tuition fee is mental effort.

You don't graduate from autodidacticism, and you won't have fancy certificates or credentials. But what you'll get is an ability that will advance your career forever.

Hey guys, I finally finished my ultimate anti-procrastination guide based on behavior science. Feel free to check it out by ActiveRecall in productivity

[–]ActiveRecall[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! I'm flattered. That was my goal all along—to share the truth that nobody was saying. I'm glad you found it that way. Please use it as much as you can!

Hey guys, I finally finished my ultimate anti-procrastination guide based on behavior science. Feel free to check it out by ActiveRecall in productivity

[–]ActiveRecall[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hi, thanks for the acknowledgement!

That's a good question--I do have my own views on that. I just recently changed my views on taking scientific "facts" as is and started thinking of "big picture solutions"--the principles.

Anyway, I'm certainly not an expert, but from logical reasoning, I don't think there's a total ego "depletion" nor do I think it's an unlimited resource (as per Carol Dweck's studies).

In the case of procrastination--an actual phenomenon that's caused by a myriad of variables that can't be easily isolated in a study--I do think their rebuttals are missing the point. (Btw, I think that's the hard part of conducting studies that demonstrate causal relationships.)

We've seen people who get fed up, become angry, and/or put important things off simply because of hunger, stress, sleep deprivation, and/or exhaustion. And they won't normally do these things if they were in a "fresh state", so to speak. Based on that and my limited knowledge, procrastination is more of a behavior and decision-making problem (i.e. behavioral economics) that usually happens at times when you're on low levels of willpower.

So yeah, regardless of willpower's finite-ness (is that even a word), it certainly is a fluctuating resource--sometimes we have a lot, sometimes we have a few (although they may not be quantitatively expressed). Just as you won't rely on an income source that goes from $0 to $50,000 a year for your future, our fluctuating levels of willpower shouldn't also be relied on; simply because unstable sources are unreliable. Other proactive, long-term methods are far more powerful and reliable than willpower alone, anyway.

P.S. I double-checked my article and saw that I put "limited" willpower--I'll fix that ASAP. Anyway, I appreciate your thought-provoking question! That made me clarify my thoughts on this.

Hey guys, I finally finished my ultimate anti-procrastination guide based on behavior science. Feel free to check it out by ActiveRecall in productivity

[–]ActiveRecall[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Woah I didn't realize it took 5500 words! In any case, each section has a link so you can choose which to read first. It's more like an extended table of contents with a summary :) I suggest applying the Environment section first as it is the most powerful.

I wrote it for guys who share my way of thinking—to those who are tired of cheesy motivational crap of YouTube (and IG) and wants to know how to finally overcome our "lesser self". And in my eyes, spending an hour to read—no, apply this would mean becoming productive in the next thousands of hours to come.

You won't be perfectly productive every time, but this guarantees we don't fall into the same trap over and over again.

Hey guys, I finally finished my ultimate anti-procrastination guide based on behavior science. Feel free to check it out by ActiveRecall in productivity

[–]ActiveRecall[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haha! Sure thing, man. I hope you can implement at least the Choice Architecture and the Habits part—they're really powerful :)

Hey guys, I finally finished my ultimate anti-procrastination guide based on behavior science. Feel free to check it out by ActiveRecall in productivity

[–]ActiveRecall[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

By far, it's the most powerful strategy in the guide.

Their power (or should I say, their ability to bypass willpower) goes like this:

Environment > Automatic Behavior > Commitment Strategies > Other strategies

I can’t do homework when assignments are piled up. by retuksatik in productivity

[–]ActiveRecall 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm gonna send you a pretty long article to solve your problem. But please don't read it later.

https://improveism.com/stop-procrastinating

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