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I don't really understand why everyone doesn't grind problem solving skills constantly. It feels like almost everyone gets to a certain (often quite low) skill level in what is basically a cheat code for life with unbounded upwards growth and then goes "welp, that's good enough"

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-??? w/ COVID

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i tried doing this and i think it might’ve been net negative

9:35 PM · Jul 29, 2020Twitter for iPad

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Sounds like a problem to solve to me!

QC (in Berlin 7/29-??? w/ COVID

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@QiaochuYuan

Jul 29, 2020

i mean yes lol but part of what i had to do was (temporarily) step out of the frame in which there were “problems” that needed “solving”

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how so? what was negative? one possible negative i see is that deliberately practicing this mindset might make one more likely to frame things as problems to be solved, which can be counterproductive if the "problem" is a human.

QC (in Berlin 7/29-??? w/ COVID

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@QiaochuYuan

Jul 29, 2020

i was applying a lot of force to myself. it’s hard to love yourself when you relate to your self as a problem that needs to be solved