Experimental mindset

Escapist (Low Ambition, High Curiosity)

-Retail therapy, binge watching, dream planning.

Cynic (Low Ambition, Low Curiosity)

-Doomscrolling, passing up opportunities, poking fun at earnest people.

Perfectionist (High Ambition, Low Curiosity)

-Self-coercion, information hoarding, toxic productivity.

Experimental (High Ambition, High Curiosity)

I will [action] for [duration].

My past experiments:

• I will eat 25 eggs/day for a week (2018)

• I will sleep at 10pm for a week (2018)

• I will try whole food plant based diet for 2 weeks (2020)

• I will run 10km everyday for 100 days (2024)

On going experiments:

• I will eat yogurt for a week

• I will run 5km each at sunrise and sunset

• I will wash my face at 4pm

When to Give up

Even there is clearly benefits for whole food plant-based diet,
when I first started at 2020, it went well at first few weeks,
best bowel movement of my life ever,
but everything took a turn as my gastrointestinal problems surface at 2022,
constant bloating constipation diarrhea,
I even went to colonoscopy,
doctors are confused how I got here at this age and even more confused when they know about my fiber intake.
My point is, it is ok to give up, I cut down legumes and whole grains intakes for now.
I quit running 10km after 30 days, my legs are injured,
harms are outweigh the benefits.

I regret not giving up games soon,
after 3 years of grinding, I did eventually sold 3 NFT accounts,
but it's "Play stupid games, win stupid prizes."
I was so obsessed that I even set alarm to disturb my sleep,
made myself in constant anxiety state,
pursue next quests next lv next items,
think about what area of your life you regret not giving up soon,
maybe it's a relationship, career, sport, social media, investment,
it's a hard decision to make,
we human has a loss aversion,
but give up sometimes is the best decision you can make.

Trying new things

For the first time, I turn to diary specifically yogurt,
I was believed that diary raises IGF-1 and it cause cancer,
that makes me keep avoiding it,
I come up with a hypothesis,
probiotic in yogurt feed on lactose,
so there is not much lactose floating around,
what if the benefits outweigh the risks in my current situation,
maybe I could really use the help of probiotic to make my gut microbiome healthier,
only one way to find out,
turns out it really help with constipation.

Enjoy the process

"Patience... this is a journey, not every step we take will be forward." The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
The view of a mountain top is beautiful
only because you took the EFFORT to climb it.

Celebrate Failure

"The way to find the correct answer before everybody else
is to increase your rate of experimentation.
We have a full-time failure and experimentation team
so that we can fail faster because
failure is feedback, feedback is knowledge and knowledge is power.
So our rate of failure will correlate to our rate of success.
This is the experimenter of the week trophy.
This trophy every week goes to the person that has failed the most,
conducted the most experiments, tried the most things." Steven Bartlett