You can exceed your MRV temporarily to improve your capacity, and push MRV to the right.
Try to do this with every skill at once and you'll fall apart
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If you take all of your activities and group them together you get your "systematic MRV", some limit you'll hit if you are doing too much. Your systematic MRV < sum( skill MRVs )
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What if I want to get better at a bunch of skills?
Pick one skill to push hard for some time. Ramp it up from MEV->MRV->MRV+.
Keep everything else at MV, to avoid decay
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"James you're just talking about periodization again"
...well, yeah. MV/MEV/MRV are just a useful way to frame it
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END/ Periodization is a powerful tool, at all time scales. Can you incorporate periodization into your life? Think daily, weekly, quarterly, decennially. Where does periodization succeed? Where does it fail?
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MV as a concept is a great way to tighten up the ship a bit. Do you really need to keep duolingo installed if you only study Spanish once a month?
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MEV is a nice place to be for a lot of activities. Tweet enough to foster discussion but not so much you get sucked in to the vortex.
Check email often enough to not get fired but not so much that you're wasting time.
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don't get too serious with quantifying these values.
Knowing that your daily MRV for writing is ~2 hours: useful
Stopping at exactly 120 minutes when you're on a roll because you wanted a concrete number: silly
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I must ask: how do you know that this is true? Genuinely curious.
“Look for absence of recovery not presence of stress” sounds insightful but goes against most contemporary research on burnout. The Maslach burnout inventory specifically looks for markers of stress.
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I'm not sure Ryan's aiming at a boolean statement here, more like a corrective heuristic
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Interesting. I’ve used Maslach’s inventory to develop a different heuristic (test for resentment), which allowed me to keep going in my previous startup. I’d be curious to know if you (or he!) have *actually* used this in practice? Is it effective? Are there nuances in use?
The reason I ask is because Maslach developed her inventory for doctors & nurses who dealt with death. It’s possible to ‘recover’ on a holiday and then burnout upon returning to work. It also explains why her development model is so effective at checking for burnout.
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To clarify: I'm curious to know if this is actually verified by practice, so I can adapt it to my own life. But if it's simply 'statement that sounds right', then I'll wait until it's been verified.
My priors are that it shouldn't work as effectively as 'check for resentment'.
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