EvieRan October 22nd Hello guys,let me share with you a thought from Alan Watts about goals and all :) ↓ There's this idea from Alan Watts that I keep coming back to whenever I feel too obsessed with a goal: the more you strive for happiness, the worse you feel in the process - and the more you accept your unhappiness, the better you feel about your situation. Let me make it a bit more concrete. Say you live alone. You focus on how much happier you'd be living with someone, if you had a...
9 days ago • 1 min read
EvieRan October 12th Hello guys,I've read The 12 Week Year and most of it wasn't new. But 3 ideas in it are worth stealing, especially if you have ADHD - and one of them is doing something the authors never name. Here's the setup and at the end, I have a quick update on how it is going ↓ 1. Set a 12-week goal, not a yearly one A reward loses its pull the further away it sits. Everyone works this way; but in ADHD the drop-off is much steeper. A goal 12 months out has almost no motivational...
18 days ago • 2 min read
EvieRan October 6th Hello guys,I fell down a proper rabbit hole this week and decided to make you a part of it :) ↓ Here's the story.. Back in the 1980s, a French researcher named René Peoc'h (would never be able to pronounce his name) ran this weird experiment. He had newly-hatched chicks "imprint" on a small robot that moved around a pen completely at random. 🐥 Baby chicks bond to the first moving thing they see - so they decided this robot was mum, and wanted to be near it. René then caged...
24 days ago • 2 min read
EvieRan October 1st Hello guys,Here's a thing nobody tells you about doing your own research: sometimes you find out you were wrong :) ↓ I went into this one with a video already half-built in my head. Short-form video, attention spans, the whole thing. I knew roughly what I was going to say, I just needed the studies to confirm my words. They didn't. First, the famous statistic (the one about human attention spans dropping to 8 seconds, shorter than a goldfish), turns out to have no source....
29 days ago • 1 min read
EvieRan September 14th Hello guys,I made a video and I forgot to mention the name of the thing :D ↓ I made a video about a method I use to get myself to do things I've been avoiding. I called them flexi jobs - one specific task, paired with one specific reward you choose in advance. A deal with yourself. What I didn't say in the video is that this isn't something I invented. It has a name, and there's a fair amount of research behind it. It's called the Premack principle. The idea is simple:...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
EvieRan August 7th Hello guys, Some years later, I finally decided to reopen my newsletter :) ↓ This time it comes with an actual purpose. Before, it was more of a "sounds like a good idea!" without any real direction. Now the direction is clear: occasional letters between videos - sent only when I have something worth saying. No fixed schedule, which sounds vague, but it's the opposite: it means I'll only land in your inbox when there's a reason to. Here's the kind of thing I'll share:...
3 months ago • 1 min read