People think this is not true because they conflate surprisal with unpredictability. They're not the same. I can't predict a sequence of coin tosses, but almost no sequence of heads/tails would surprise me. It would take something like tosses producing pi in binary to do that
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Self-disruption basically. Trying to inject novelty into your life by learning unrelated new things is like trying to do 3 undergraduate degrees instead of 1 PhD. A series of degrees is a scripted series of self-disruptions. MS mind disrupts BS mind. PhD mind disrupts MS mind.
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Doesn't work very well, but the more informal, less scripted version of developing a sense for when you've plateaued in some activity and blowing it up at the right time, to make it new again, but WITHOUT losing the experience earned... that's the real skill of surprise-seeking
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Thank you for reading my long-winded justification for my writing mostly sucking this last year
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Addendum: there is a big element of surrender in accessing surprisal latent in the universe, and it becomes harder to surrender with age because we become addicted to agency. Even when risks are low, we resist. Kids surprise more easily because they surrender more easily.
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this is basically the rationale behind my suggested solution: if you feel like you've seen it all, publish a work that details each and every archetypal pattern that stultifies existence in familiarity. you'll either find new patterns or newly appreciate these same old patterns
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If you recover from depression or anxiety or major life changes you kinda get to do this. It’s not pretty and involves breaking down the idol of yourself you worship and it’s horribly painful but can be done. New pathways can be dug
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Sounds like the transition phase prior to your mediocratopia post #3 -- if 50%@level 4 looks like 99%@level 3, then if you're at level 3 aspiring to go up you'll start out looking like 5%@level 4
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