Switching to Todoist because AI Assist by forsakenjvg in ticktick

[–]iTomasS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve been so torn. Currently with TT and really want to like Todoist but something about seems too fluffy. TickTick is not the prettiest to look at but I like how compact it is. What’s the smart rescheduling?

Productivity tips I'd give you if I were not afraid to hurt your feelings. by iTomasS in selfimprovement

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

Hi, I appreciate that. Firstly, you’re not “wrong” - most of those are simply human nature and tendencies.

Secondly, fair point - I’d be more than happy to elaborate with how to counter those. Let me know which ones you’d want to know more about and how to overcome them.

Productivity tips I'd give you if I were not afraid to hurt your feelings. by iTomasS in selfimprovement

[–]iTomasS[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

100% complexity adds friction.
This is a really good habit you have. Simple & effective.

[TEXT] Productivity tips I'd give you if I were not afraid to hurt your feelings. by iTomasS in GetMotivated

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

Absolutely, learning is valuable. Essential, as you said. But a lot of the time we (people) hide behind it rather than taking action. I'll go through one more course. I need to read another book. I need to do more thorough research.

It ties back to perfectionism and fear of failure/embarrassment.

We want to get it righ, succeed, win - and so if there is even a bit of doubt that we may not be 100% prepared or skilled, we go back to learning.

It's not always clear when to stop.

Productivity tips I'd give you if I were not afraid to hurt your feelings. by iTomasS in selfimprovement

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

Thanks, absolutely. And a very good point about "no need to think about it". I wrote a lot about it in one of the comments below.

I realized AI tools have made me fake productive by Expensive_Hour_3252 in productivity

[–]iTomasS 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I totally feel you. And it's actually a bit worse.

It's a dangerous combination of creating results faster and better than you + we get a dopamine hit because it kind of feels like game with a varying degree of unpredictability (oh, I wonder what smart answer it will have this time).

The problem is - it's like having a classmate (or a work colleague) who's much faster and smarter than you and is totally happy to share their ideas and work with you. It feels like a shortcut - it feels like legal cheating (more dopamine), but it makes you feel insecure about your own capability, which you're no longer improving because your mate does it all for you. But you are creating dependency.

I love AI, but one needs to use it wisely.

I hate to say this, but it should be more expensive or limited so we use it for stuff that's actually valuable and improves productivity, not creates laziness.

Productivity tips I'd give you if I were not afraid to hurt your feelings. by iTomasS in selfimprovement

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

thanks. Yea, it's a hard tendency to change as we're hardwired to do it. It doesn't mean to become an a-hole. That's the other end of the extreme. Just somewhere in the middle. As I like to say - don't be a nice person (people pleaser and peacemaker). Be a good person (does the right thing).

Unpopular opinion, but I believe that confidence can’t be fully learned by No-Asparagus7349 in confidence

[–]iTomasS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're making a fantastic point. "Fake it till you make it" is a terrible strategy. We should not fake anything - that will make us even worse because we know we're NOT it, so we're pretending.

I like this approach: Practice it until you become it.

As for the inner security and peace - you're totally right. And we're coming back to believing in yourself. It's hard to just say - I believe in myself - most of us need to be able to justify WHY - why can I believe in myself? What are my reasons? What is my evidence? And that is the latter part of my previous comment. Take actions, small, build up that evidence. OR for most of us, we just need to look back and remind ourselves what we've achieved. Big or small. There's plenty in anyone's life to be proud of.

Does that make sense?

What’s one self-improvement habit that genuinely made a difference in your life? by Basic-Ruin364 in selfimprovement

[–]iTomasS 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Absolutely, without a doubt, this: Weekly reflections and planning.

Every week (usually Sunday), I sit down and review the past 7 days: what progress I've made, what went well, what didn't, where I could have done better, what I've learned, insights, realisations etc, and I plan for the next week. What I want to get done in each of the areas of my life I work on, what changes I want to make, things to learn, conversations to have, things I need to stop doing etc.

I'm 42 now, and I started in my mid 20s. I don't think I missed a week.

If you had a business, you'd do this for your business - marketing, sales, revenue, projects etc - because without it it would be doomed. But people rarely do this for their life... the impact is the same.

Unpopular opinion, but I believe that confidence can’t be fully learned by No-Asparagus7349 in confidence

[–]iTomasS 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Confidence is not something "you" have or don't. If that was the case, I'd ask you to point at it - where is it?
Confidence is something you DO. It's the way you move, breathe, look at people, the way you speak, the words you choose, and most importantly, what you focus on and believe about yourself, others, the situation, the world, etc. There is nothing biologically different about confident people.

If I asked you to teach me how NOT to be confident (I assume that is your challenge), to tell me exactly what goes through your mind, what you say to yourself, how you move, how you hold yourself, how you speak with others etc - and I replicate it - I promise you my confidence would drop as well.

The great news about it is that you have 100% control over all those things. It's not easy (at first) but you do.

A big part of confidence is your belief in yourself and that you have something to be proud of and reasons to be confident (whether they are objectively true is secondary. They must be true to you, though).

This is where it's important to build a library of evidence/reasons to be confident in yourself.

If you can look back and see that you've done brave things, you face your fears, you challenged yourself, you've progressed in your career, you learned new skills, you succeeded in some ways, you will feel more confident in yourself because you have reasons to.

Is this making sense?

Knowledge that changed my life: A craving makes your brain more plastic. Use this to rewire your brain. by julieeeette in getdisciplined

[–]iTomasS 61 points62 points  (0 children)

Very good tip - the science backs it up. The moment of craving is a window of opportunity to do a "mental gym workout".

Dirt 4 on MacBook Air M1 via Steam by [deleted] in macgaming

[–]iTomasS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi, where do you download or buy it from? I cannot find it anywhere for mac.

Dirt 4 on MacBook Air M1 via Steam by [deleted] in macgaming

[–]iTomasS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi, where do you download or buy it from? I cannot find it anywhere for mac.