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Why Don't You Sleep On It?
thefirelane wrote to mention a New Scientist study that indicates your subconscious mind is a better decision maker than you are. From the article: "The research suggests the conscious mind should be trusted only with simple decisions, such as selecting a brand of oven glove. Sleeping on a big decision, such as buying a car or house, is more likely to produce a result people remain happy with than consciously weighing up the pros and cons of the problem, the researchers say. Thinking hard about a complex decision that rests on multiple factors appears to bamboozle the conscious mind so that people only consider a subset of information, which they weight inappropriately, resulting in an unsatisfactory choice. In contrast, the unconscious mind appears able to ponder over all the information and produce a decision that most people remain satisfied with."
I was going to say "first post" but decided to sleep on it. Not first post!
Never thought about that...
I was going to post a rebuttal to this article, but I think I'll have a nap first.
So the famous step:
2. ???
Should actually be
2. Sleep
Village idiot in some extremely smart villages.
Honest Boss, I wasn't sleeping on the job... actually I was, but it was helping me figure out how to tackle this project. Can't argue with science!
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Wait for my +5 insightful post tomorrow.
"In contrast, the unconscious mind appears able to ponder over all the information and produce a decision that most people remain satisfied with."
Ya, riiiight.
Acutally all you are doing is giving the subliminal programming messages more time to take effect on your mind. Once the unconscious takeover is complete the "sheep" no longer complain.
When the only tool you have is a claw hammer every problem starts to look like the back of someone's skull.
"the conscious mind should be trusted only with simple decisions, such as selecting a brand of oven glove."
Yes but just think how good a job you could do picking out the right oven glove if you slept on it? The mind boggles.
If you wanna get rich, you know that payback is a bitch
A scientific proof that "never do today what can be procrastinated until tomorrow" is the right way of doing things.
Chuck Norris doesn't sleep -- he waits.
Synchronize your calendar and mobile phone via text messaging.
When you wake up in the morning, your brain is at its best
I've usually found the opposite...
slashdotters don't wake up next to female mistakes. you need more sleep.
I do not accept czechs.
Geez, I want your job. My hour after waking is basically, "Oh, shit, I have to go get myself in order and go to my fucking job. :(
Unless it's the weekend, when I just don't bother waking up.
> Funny thing is, I dont believe sleep was even introduced into the
> study. They had people work on puzzles while mulling over a decision.
I will need to remember this the next time I get in trouble for playing solitaire at work.
Ut Tensio, Sic Vis
There's an old Russian maxim to the effect that "mornings are wiser than evenings". But given the Russians' reputation, I just figured it had something to do with being less full of vodka...
You forget ... this is /. - there's nobody next to most of us in the morning.
Heh.
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I've had variants of this.
Once, many, many years ago, (for reference, I had just gotten a brand new Epson MX-80 printer for the mighty TRS-80 model I), I was working on some complex algorithm or another. I mean, in those days, a complex algorithm was pretty simple by today's standards, but didn't have much memory to work with, so you had to try to be clever.
In any case, went to sleep around 3am, exhausted. Immediately had a dream where the solution came to me. In the dream, I wrote it, tested it, and saved the file. But then I realized in the dream that I was asleep, so saving to a dream drive wouldn't work -- when I woke up again, it would be gone. So the solution was to print it. Somehow, in dream logic, the printout was more persistent.
The next morning, I knew I had to check the printer for something. Unfortunately, I found nothing there. I couldn't remember why I needed to check, although I felt really let down that there was no print out.
I gradually reconstructed the dream, and even got back to the solution I had come up with. Turned out to be incorrect, but got me on the right track
Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachtani?
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I can't count the number of times that it wasn't until I woke up that I realized sleeping with the girl I thought was hot at the bar wasn't quite as hot as I originally thought.
.. this guy must be quite stupid then
"" How about taking the safety labels off everything, and let the stupidity-problem solve itself? """
On my forums, I have a rule: no posting while high. It started when people started making threads on a daily basis about how they were "just sitting around with some friends talking" and realized something utterly profound, yet remarkably stupid.
Obviously I can't enforce it, but it sure does cut down on the pot posting.
120 characters for a sig? That's bloody useless.
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