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Originally Posted by Steve Pavlina  Sometimes I'll even head down to the Las Vegas Strip and work on an article while sitting in 4-5 different locations throughout the day. |
Thats the exception though. Usually you go to
your cave, that's your best practice routine.
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Originally Posted by Steve Pavlina I regard routine as scaffolding. It's good to have a basic structure to each day for practical reasons, but for my core work I like to keep mixing things up, so every day is different in some way. |
New experiences are basically just differentials to compare your current set of best practices against.
And good routines are more than the scaffolding, they are the foundation and probably most of the house. The thing is, just don't go building your house before you know what you're doing or it'll fall apart. And make sure to leave some extra room for additions.
Now, if Erin decided to try to be a car mechanic tomorrow, and you decided to give up writing to become a professsional basketball player you would both learn some new contexts, but those wouldn't exactly be the most intelligent decisions.
The careers you've chosen are your best practices. New experiences can guide you towards upgrading those, but the new experiences themselves are not the end all be all, the final practices are. You'll get diminishing returns from constantly trying "something new" rather than using proven techniques.
Best practices do eventually turn into routines, like using a process to get up early, another for cooking brown rice, etc. True intelligence is knowing what your personal best practices are and when to use them, not constantly searching for new ones.
Happy summer solstice everyone,
