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I added the first item in my list in a comment above, but I will put it here as well, and add some other things. Buy well-made items the first time around (and do your homework to find the right thing the first time). This goes for appliances, clothing, electronics, etc. These things will cost you more at the outset, but will end up costing you less in the long run, both in terms of money and time. They will also contribute less to the overwhelming amount of stuff in landfills (which are especially clogged these days from castoffs of "fast fashion" clothing). Decide what you really do need to buy. Try not to buy, for example, kitchen appliances and gear that only do one thing, and decide if you really do need yet another thing that plugs in. Heat up leftovers on the stove instead of buying and using a microwave. Chop things by hand instead of buying and using a food processor. Buy clothes that truly fit well, and that are in a classic style (i.e. not things that will look dated in a season). Buy only what you really need for all the occasions for which you need to dress, and only what you need to have in between washing cycles. Get rid of physical media. Keep some of your favorite books (especially ones that really need to be touched and paged through, like art books and children's picture books), but get rid of most of them. Use the library and use ebooks. Get rid of CDs. With all the streaming music sources out there, you can even get rid of your mp3 collection and just stream anything you want to hear. Don't have a TV or a cable box. You don't have to live like a luddite, though, to live simply - have a nice, large monitor and a decent computer with a good, fast internet connection. Stream TV shows and movies you want to watch. If you must own a car, own one used one. Keep it in good running shape. Take care of it physically. But if you have an older "cockroach" car (e.g. most Toyotas and Hondas), you can keep that sucker running forever without thinking about it much and without worrying about every scratch and ding. If you can get away without a car, do so. Get yourself a nice commuter bike that fits you well (by "nice" I mean one that is built well with decent parts so it works well and you enjoy using it, without having to worry about it getting banged up or stolen). Rent an apartment, don't buy a house. Don't have a yard or building maintenance to deal with. Plumbing issue? It's not your problem to solve. The building needs painting? Who cares? Lawn needs mowing? Not by you. Your neighbors get too annoying or your neighborhood starts to go downhill? Move when your lease is up. Purge, relentlessly purge things you just don't need and aren't sure you want anymore. An easy way to do this is to have a "holding area" for things you think you might want to get rid of but aren't sure you can commit to chucking. The holding area can be part of a closet, an unused stairway landing, etc. Make sure it's neat and self-contained. Put things there that you think you probably don't want anymore. If you're fine with them out of your life after a week or so, donate them. Have fewer things sitting out on surfaces in your place of dwelling. And pick up after yourself and put things away when you're done with them. Reducing clutter really helps one feel calmer. And it's a great incentive to get rid of things you're just tired of cleaning or putting away all the time (especially if they just don't give you enough pleasure for the annoyance they cause). Have one credit card. Let's be honest - in this day and age, you do need a credit card. But you don't need five. Pay off and close out the others as soon as possible. This will really help you know exactly what you've spent on what, and where your debt lies. Make sure that you have that one credit card set up with electronic statements only (and have email reminders sent if you need them). That reduces random crap that comes in the mail, and also helps you really to figure out the status of your spending (I find that paper statements are oftentimes difficult to read, and you can't just click around on them to get more information). The same goes for bank accounts and debit cards. Have a savings and a checking/debit account at one bank. Keep track of these accounts electronically.Collect all your mail, put it in a bin, and sort it once a week. There's no need to go through snail mail every day (if something is urgent, it's not going to be sent by snail mail). For a long-term project, go through your junk mail and call/email each place to unsubscribe from their mailing lists so you eventually have to deal with less paper crap in your life. Keep your email inbox empty. Answer emails immediately, if possible. When that's not possible, immediately "quarantine" these emails into an "action" folder to be dealt with later. Label and archive everything else that you want to be able to find later. Make filters so certain "bacon" items (i.e. spam that you've signed up for, like mailing lists - things that you might want to look at, but are not top priority) go straight to folders to be gone through once or twice a week. Obviously, use gmail. Don't get stuck staring at a screen more than you have to (she says, while typing up a long answer on Quora). Use social media if it makes you happy. But don't become a slave to it. No electronics after 10PM. **Edit for a couple more things I thought of:One electronic thing that I've found that IS worth owning is a small document scanner. The Fujitsu ScanSnap is amazing. It's tiny and it works fantastically well. We use it to scan all the files that one needs to keep track of and that would otherwise have to exist in paper form in a filing cabinet. The first time around, scanning everything took a long time; then again, we DID get rid of an entire large filing cabinet's worth of papers and stuff (as well as the filing cabinet itself). And now we put important papers and such in a folder to be scanned about once every month or two, and we keep this digital filing cabinet in the cloud (Dropbox works well). Not only does that help you get rid of a lot of papers, but you can also find things so much more easily when you need to (e.g. for insurance purposes, taxes, etc). I've also used this to scan written mementos (e.g. holiday cards, postcards that I want to see again, written notes) that I don't want to get rid of completely, but that I also don't want to have in a big bin in my house. We have one small container (one of those 6-8" deep file bin things) for papers one HAS to keep (e.g. car titles, birth certificates), and a couple of small shoeboxes of physical mementos. And that's it. Get rid of as many annoying errands as you can. If you have a bit of room, stock up on annoying cleaning supplies and paper goods at Costco or the like. Order other annoying household type things from Amazon (yes, I know, there's a trade-off here in that local businesses don't get the revenue from things you've ordered from Amazon. At the same time, spending an hour to get to and from a store to get dish soap can really suck the life out of you). Rather spend that errand time enjoying shopping for good food, patronizing local businesses for high-quality items (e.g. things that are NOT, say, dish soap), spending time doing things you actually WANT to do. Consider observing the sabbath, or a sabbath-like day to some extent. This doesn't have to involve religion. But enforcing some strict rules on yourself regarding what you are and are not allowed to do for 24 hours can really get you out of the constant complexities of modern life. A sabbath-like day should be a day of rest, a day devoid of work of all kinds. Obviously, you can choose to follow the judaic tradition or you can make up some rules yourself. But the general idea that you're not to use electronic devices, that you're not to do any work, that you're not to finish anything, that you're not to write anything, that you're not to clean or scrub anything completely changes the way you travel through your day. All this being said, enjoy yourself. Live simply to allow yourself more time and energy to actually go out and do things, to read things, to learn things, to make things, to spend time with people, to exercise, to travel. I think too many people equate "living simply" with being a complete ascetic. I think that my family and I live quite simply (though we're always trying to get a bit better at it), yet we are not monks. We love having nice clothing that makes us feel spiffy (some of it used/vintage, some of it new), we love eating excellent food, we enjoy having certain electronics that work really well and that add to our lives, we love watching good TV and movies and listening to a variety of music, we love biking most places but taking the car when we have to (and we actually also love our 1988 Toyota Land Cruiser with more than 350000 miles on it), we really enjoy having nice, well-made athletic equipment that makes our athletic endeavors more enjoyable. Could we get on without much of that? Sure. But we are also not in a race to live in a yurt in the middle of nowhere (which is a completely lovely option for those who wish to do just that).

I’ve been through the process of self-publishing on Kindle and learnt a few things. Now, I can share my tips, so you don’t make the same mistakes! I’m a commercially published author now, but I understand the frustrations of trying to break into conventional publishing, because it took me ten years to get my big break. [ http://graemeshimmin.com/a-kill-in-the-morning-shortlisted-for-terry-prachett-prize/ ] Before I got my publishing deal, I self-published a short story called Veronika, [ http://graemeshimmin.com/veronika-short-story/ ]using Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) with modest success – it has been in the Amazon top 50. Self publishing does have the advantage of getting your work out there, which can lead to attracting attention and sales. Why Self Publish on Kindle? Amazon’s two main competitors, Apple and Barnes & Noble, both claim to have gained a 20+% market share of the eBook market, leaving Amazon with something like 60%. But surveys of self-published authors have shown that Amazon’s share of self-published eBook sales is much higher – more like 80-85%. Whether the true figure is 60% or as high as 85%, Amazon is the biggest market by a long way, and KDP makes the process of self publishing on Kindle relatively easy. Self publish on Kindle: Step 1 – Your Book First you’ll need to sign up for KDP. Then you start by clicking Add a Title. The important options to fill in are: 1. Book name 2. Description (up to 4,000 characters – use it to sell your book to the reader) 3. Book contributors (you as the author) 4. Categories (whichever genres you are writing in) 5. Search keywords (up to 7, add the themes of the novel, don’t duplicate the categories) These other items can just be left blank/default: Subtitle, Series, Edition Number, Publisher, Language,Publication Date, ISBN. Verify Your Publishing Rights As you are self-publishing your own work, and so you have copyright, select This is not a public domain work and I hold the necessary publishing rights. Convert your book to Kindle format KDP accepts three main formats: * Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx) * Ebook Formats (Html, Mobi, Epub) * signNow PDF It is possible to send Microsoft Word and signNow PDF documents direct to KDP, but the formatting is far from ideal if you do. If you want a really professional looking book then you should convert your book to Kindle’s HTML format yourself before uploading. I found the easiest solution was to convert the formatted manuscript [ http://graemeshimmin.com/manuscript-format-for-novel-submission/ ]into Kindle specific html. How to do this will be the subject of a separate answer. But, as we’re doing things the easy way for now, I suggest you just upload the manuscript and let Amazon reformat it for Kindle. Use Kindle Previewer If you have created an HTML format file then you can use Kindle Previewer, a downloadable Kindle emulator, to check how your book will look on various types of Kindle . What I found was that without careful tweaking, my book looked good on one type of Kindle but not on others. Kindle Previewer allows you to quickly switch between Kindle versions and see how the book will look on each type. Upload Your Book File Once you’re happy with the format, you can upload the file to KDP. The only option is Digital Rights Management. This is your choice. Choose Enable if you want to make it harder for people to copy your book, or Do Not Enable if you prefer to make your book available without restrictions. After you’ve uploaded, there’s an online previewer to check the text still looks right. Self publish on Kindle: Step 2 – Cover Photo There are two options, design your own cover or use the template-based Cover Creator. I recommend designing your own cover. The book cover is critical to attracting readers and a template based design is less likely to stand out from the crowd. The picture at the top shows what the cover I designed for Veronika looks like on the Kindle. Designing your own cover doesn’t have to be difficult. At the simplest, it’s just a question of finding a photo, making it the right size and adding the book’s title and your name to it. Find a Cover Photo There are two options: use an original photo or artwork of your own or download one from an image library. The cheapest and easiest option is to use your own photo. Make the Cover Photo the Right Size and Add the Title You’ll need some image editing software to make the cover the right size and to add the title and your name as the author. The free and easy to use image editing programs I recommend are iPiccy and Pixlr. Use the image editor to crop the photo so it is 1,563 x 2,500 pixels, as in the diagram below: The cover should also be in colour, despite the fact the most common Kindles only display black and white. This is because the Kindle Fire and the Kindle app on iPhone, Windows etc. can display colour. Both iPiccy and Pixlr have a variety of free to use fonts. Experiment with a few different ones until you find one you like. Upload the Cover This is simply a matter of clicking Browse for Image… selecting the cover you’ve designed and then clicking Upload Image. Design a cover using the Cover Creator Alternatively, if you just want a simple cover, use the Cover Creator. Step 3 – Rights and Pricing Verify Your Publishing Territories Select Worldwide rights – all territories. Your book will then appear on all the different Amazon sites around the world. Choose Your Royalty I suggest you set your price so that you receive the 70% Royalty – which means a minimum of $2.99 / £1.49 after that it’s up to you. You can set prices worldwide automatically, based on the US price, or customise your prices for different territories. It might be worth setting prices manually to exploit psychological price points like £1.99. Self publish on Kindle: Final Step – Publish! Now just click Save and Publish. That’s it. In a couple of hours your book will be on all the Amazon stores around the world. See – I told you it was easy! More Details There are more details, including links to all the tools mentioned, on my website at How to Self Publish on Kindle in Three Easy Steps [ http://graemeshimmin.com/self-publish-on-kindle/ ]

Productivity is largely about changing your mindset and habits. I don’t want to give you a bunch of tricks, tips and hacks because if you don’t fix the underlying foundation, nothing will change. Sure, you’ll be more productive for a day or two, but you’ll soon go back to the way things were.Productivity isn’t about time management (that’s a misnomer) – it’s about self-management. Here are some of my best tips for managing your self and becoming more productive.Build your day around your toughest tasks, then do those things first.Identify your top one or two most pressing tasks, then tackle those first. You have the most willpower and motivation in the morning, which means your likelihood of completing those things is the highest. The other benefit to this is it creates a domino effect – once you get your most important things done, you can use that momentum to complete your other tasks.Create a “stop doing” list.We’ve all been taught to create a to-do list. But just as important as the things you are doing, you must stop doing certain things. Learning to say “no” frees up a lot of your time. Steve Jobs said that what made Apple Apple was not so much what they chose to build but all the projects they chose to ignore. Stop checking your email first thing in the morning – protect the peak energy hours for your best work.Decide “Hell yes!” or “no.”One of the best pieces of advice along the same lines comes from Derek Sivers – when deciding on things, it should be a “hell yes!” or “no.” There is no in-between. This really helps you decide on what’s important and what’s not. Note: this can and should also be applied in other areas of your life too, like buying clothes for example. How many T-shirt have you bought and only worn once?Delegate the tasks you dread and the tasks that.I love the concept of “activation energy” – the effort that it takes to get something started. Once you start a task, it’s easy to keep going, but the hard part is starting! If you delegate those tasks with a high activation energy, you’ll be able to start gettings things done, then use that momentum to keep going and stay productive the entire day.Stop waiting for perfect conditions.There will never be a “perfect” time to do anything. Don’t wait to launch a project or start a task. Done is better than perfect Immediate action fuels a positive feedback loop that drives even more action.Eliminate the mess to eliminate the stress.Mess creates stress. Tennis icon Andre Agassi said he wouldn’t let anyone touch his tennis bag because if it got disorganized, he’d get distracted. Clean out the clutter in your office to get more done. Set up the conditions for productivity.Throw out your TV and unsubscribe from Netflix.It’s too easy to get caught up binging on Game of Thrones. The best way to make sure you don’t get caught waiting entire nights on junky TV is to not have a TV. Set up the conditions for productivity.Establish positive routines.Some of the most productive people (Tim Ferriss, Stephen King, Thomas Edison, etc.), follow strict daily routines. Every day, they know exactly when to get up, they know exactly when to start work, exercise, work, etc.. Peak productivity is not about luck. It’s about routine and devotion.Stop multi-tasking!New research confirms that all the distractions invading our lives are rewiring the way our brains work (and drop our IQ by 5 points!). Be one of the rare-air few who develops the mental and physical discipline to have a mono-maniacal focus on one thing for many hours. (It’s all about practice).Slow down to speed up.Get things right the first time because not doing your best work, causing you to re-do it will take 2x longer than it would have originally. People are wildly distracted, leading to mistakes. To unleash your productivity, become one of the special performers who have the mindset of doing what it takes to get it right first. This saves you days of having to fix problems.Ask for help.There’s no shame in asking for help. It actually shows maturity. And studies show they’re actually viewed by their colleagues as being smarter. Learning to ask for help and leveraging other people’s strengths could save you tons of time in the long run.Stop and reflect.Take a step back and see what’s working and what’s not. See what needs to be prioritized and what needs to be changed. Building in time to review isn’t wasting time, but optimizes your work moving forward. For more on post-project reflection, check out this post.Take a break!Sometimes, your brain just needs a break. If you’re feeling stuck on a particular problem or are feeling like you aren’t getting anything done, don’t fight or resist that feeling. Recognize that your body or mind is trying to tell you it’s overwhelmed, and go take a walk. Downtime makes you more productive by giving you more emotional resilience to the inevitable ups and downs at work, while also helping you to get some perspective on the problems you are trying to solve. So unless it’s an emergency, when you leave the office, leave it. Everything will be there when you get back.

Four monks decided to meditate silently without speaking for two weeks. They lit a candle as a symbol of their practice and began. By nightfall on the first day, the candle flickered and then went out.The first monk said: "Oh, no! The candle is out."The second monk said: "We’re not supposed to talk!"The third monk said: "Why must you two break the silence?"The fourth monk laughed and said: "Ha! I'm the only one who didn't speak."95% of all talking covers only two topics:The person whose mouth is open.Stuff that’s outside our control.The first monk got distracted by an outside event and felt compelled to point it out. He could’ve just re-lit the candle.The second monk reminded everyone of a rule that had already been broken. He could’ve just kept meditating.The third monk vented his anger. He could’ve just stayed calm.The fourth monk got carried away with his ego. He could’ve just enjoyed his success in silence.What all four have in common is that they shared their thoughts without filtering them, none of which added anything to improve the situation. If there had been a fifth, wiser monk, here’s what he would have done: Remain silent and keep meditating.In doing so, he would’ve shown each of the other four monks their shortcomings without a single word. The more you talk, the more likely you are to say something stupid.The less you talk, the more you can listen. Listening leads to learning.What’s more, when you’re not talking, you have time to observe the situation until you spot the moment when it’s actually important to say something. Only speak when what you say is likely to have a signNow, positive impact, for wisdom is cultivated in silence.The less you speak, the smarter you get. And, maybe not quite coincidentally, the smarter you get, the less you speak.

First of all I appreciate your interest in learning Telugu. Telugu is a beautiful language which non native speakers find relatively easy to pick up.You can learn Telugu by following waysBuy a Learn Telugu in 30 days book. Choose the Language through which you find comfortable to learn in. If your mother tongue is Hindi then buy Learn Telugu in 30 days through Hindi book.Watch and observe the way your friends speak Telugu. Watch old Telugu movies preferably Family Dramas to note common vocabulary.There are plenty of You Tube channels and Play Store Apps to learn grammar and vocabulary.Try to speak in Telugu because practicing whatever you learn will give you comfort and confidence to learn more. Your friends can correct you properly if you try to speak in Telugu, which is practically more useful than learning it self.TV Serials and Advertisements have almost similar dialogues and content in all regional languages. TV news will give you a great knowledge on formal way of speaking. Make use of Telugu TV news and Serials. Reality shows they themselves have forgot what Telugu is. So avoid them for learning purpose.

Here are some practices that help me:1. I try to follow my ideas to their axiomatic bases. I know when I've signNowed the foundation of an idea when I get to "just because," "I simply believe it's true," "I just feel it's true," "I live under the assumption that it's true" or "I don't know." If I can logically work back up from that axiom (or a set of axioms) to my idea, then I'm being as rational as a human can be.For instance: "That's my cat."What do I mean by "my"? I mean that I own the cat, but in what sense do I own it? Perhaps I immediately get to "I don't know" or "I just feel as if I do." Then I can say, "I feel as if I own my cat, but I can't really explain what that means or why I feel that way." That's perfectly rational. It may not be explanatory, and it may be dissatisfying, but it's not irrational.Or, perhaps I can say, "I'm using the word 'own' to mean that the cat lives with me, I take responsibility for its well being, I would try to stop someone else from taking it away from me, and I feel I have the right to do so."Why do I feel I have the right? Maybe, again, I don't know or that's just the way I feel. Or maybe I can go down another level: "Because I was brought up with the idea of ownership. All my life, everyone around me has trained me to think of objects (and pretty much everything except other people) as having no owner, being owned by me, or being owned by someone else. When I was a child, I was punished if I took something that I and other people thought of as being owned by someone else, and I was also brought up to feel a sense of injustice if someone took something that I felt I owned. The legal and moral systems I live under assume this to be true." Why was I brought up that way? Why does such a legal system exist? Etc. I just need to keep following these questions until I get to "I don't know" or "I simply assume it to be true." In a perfect argument between two people--a logical argument, not an angry argument--they dig towards axioms together. If they get all the way to the bottom level and find they disagree, there's little they can do. An axiom by its nature can't be proven. But they'll be crystal clear on the locus of their disagreement. If they agree on axioms, then the disagreement must be further up, and it's probably an error in logic on one or both of their parts. At least one of them is not drawing a conclusion from its premises. We often have to think quickly, so it's impossible to always (or even usually) delve down to axioms. But in quiet moments we can pause to do it, especially when we find ourselves making the same arguments (or espousing the same beliefs) over and over. How many of your core beliefs have you examined this way? Sometimes, I pick one of my paragraphs at random and circle or boldface the unexamined claims in it. As rational as I think I am, there are usually quite a few:"We often have to think quickly, so it's impossible to always (or even usually) delve down to axioms. But in quiet moments we can pause to do it, especially when we find ourselves making the same arguments (or espousing the same beliefs) over and over. How many of your core beliefs have you examined this way? "What makes me think that we "often have to think quickly"? It seems obvious that we do, but can I support this with any sort of evidence? Is it true for all people? Is it more true in some situations than others? What sort of situations? What exactly do I mean by "quickly"? Quickly compared to what?Can we pause to do it? Do we have volitional control over our pauses? And can we "especially" pause when we find ourselves repeating arguments, or is it harder to pause at times like that? What do I mean by "we." Am I just talking about myself? Lots of people? People who have been educated in a certain way? All people?If you want to think rationally, it's really helpful to, when you can, unpack the assumptions behind your claims, but if you're new to this practice, you'll hit "I don't know" quickly and often. You'll hate it, because--like most people who are rationalists--you want to believe you have logical reasons for all your ideas. This hatred will make you want to stop digging. But keep at it, and your digging skills will get better over time. Step one is admitting you don't know when you don't know, even if that's most of the time.Be especially skeptical of stock phrases. The "rational club" has lots of these, such as "I just believe in one less god than you do" and "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." I'm not saying these phrases are wrong (or right). I'm saying they can easily become ossified in your mind, shutting off all further thought on the matter. What, by the way does "extraordinary evidence" mean? How does it differ from "ordinary evidence"? What is the metric for deciding if a claim is extraordinary or not? You may have good answers for those questions or you may be just belching out those phrases without giving them much though. Next time you want to tell someone that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, try, as an exercise, making the same point with different words. If you can do it easily, that's a good sign. It probably means you understand what the phrase really means. 2. I created rules to help me discuss things calmly and rationally. As social animals, we often learn and reason through discussions, but they can easily backfire, becoming passive-aggressive (or outright aggressive) and more about maintaining ego than about clear thinking. I have forbidden myself from doing that, and I've compiled a list of phrases and situations that tend to lead me down the wrong path.I'm far from perfect. I break my own rules. But the rules give me a goal to shoot for and a way to analyze my failures. Marcus's Rules Of Order For Himself (Which He Invites You To Follow) by Marcus Geduld on Posts: Old Stuff From Before Quora Had Boards.3. I keep a failure diary. This is a list of my mistakes with the best analyses I can make of them. I've published parts of it online: Failures: On Stuff I Did WrongWe mostly learn by trial-and-error, which means constantly failing and pushing past failure. Unfortunately, most cultures stigmatize failure and teach us to avoid and deny it. Our attempt to cover up and justify our mistakes often leads to irrationality. See Marcus Geduld's answer to Why do we get frustrated when learning something?4. I avoid disputing definitions. Make sure that in any argument you're making to yourself or someone else, you make a clear distinction between labels and the things being labeled. Huge oceans of irrationality occur when people muddle those two categories."I mostly like girls, but every once in a while, I feel attraction to another man. Am I straight, gay, or bisexual?"What you are is a person who mostly likes girls, but every once in a while you feel attraction to a man. If we call you straight, you will still be a person who mostly likes girls but who is every once in a while attracted to a man; if we call you gay, you will still be a person who mostly likes girls but who is every once in a while attracted to a man;and if we call you bisexual, guess what you'll be? Still a person who mostly likes girls but is every once in a while attracted to a man. Labels change nothing about you. So what do you mean when you say "Am I straight, gay, or bisexual?" You already know you're a person who is mostly attracted to girls but who is every once in a while attracted to a man. So what exactly are you asking? It's not necessarily something nonsensical, but you'll help your rationality by being explicit. Do you mean, "Given my tastes, would most people label me as straight, gay, or bisexual?" Are you asking how psychologists will categorize you? Try to get clear why you care about the label. Is it because you've noticed that gay and bisexual people get treated unfairly, and you want to brace yourself for that? Do you want to know how other people are likely to label you? That's not a foolish concern, but it's different from "Am I ...?" at least when that phrase is taken literally.If, on the other hand, your goal is to figure out how to live your life--whether to date men, women, or both--your "Am I ...?" question is pointless. Because it won't add any new information to the fact that you're mostly attracted to girls but every once in a while attracted to man.Pay special attention to claims that involve forms of "to be." He is gay. She doesn't believe in God. They are friends. These phrases aren't necessarily irrational, but they are caves where irrationality often lurks. If you're a materialist, then try to think of the Universe as a place where objects have traits and behaviors. And do what you can to translate your to-be claims into that framework. An object has parts. An object does stuff. It doesn't make literal sense to say that an object is... Where does it keep its is-ness? "Is" is a shorthand we use to mean "has traits X, Y and Z" or "does things A, B, and C." Rationality is served when you're explicit about the has and the does.You can cut through a lot of bullshit "philosophy" that way: one brick is not a pile; two bricks isn't a pile; a hundred bricks is a pile. When is the exact transition between not-pile and pile? If you drop "is a pile," this whole muddle vanishes. That space on the floor has three bricks in it; That other space, over there, has 57 bricks in it. That's what actually exists: spaces on the floor containing a certain number of bricks. "Pile" is a human-invented label, and we've never created a robust meaning for it. When you say that Bob "is" gay, what do you mean? What traits or actions does that imply? That he has the mental trait of feeling attraction towards other men? Does he always have that feeling? Does he feel attraction towards other men when he's asleep, when he's working on a Calculus problem? When he's furious at his boss? Maybe when you say he "is" gay, you mean that at various times, throughout his life, he has felt attraction for other men. And you're predicting he will, at many times in the future, fell that attraction again. (Again, using "is" can lead to faux paradoxes. Bob only likes men. Mike mostly likes men, but 2% of the time he's attracted to women. Are they both gay? Is just one of them gay? What actually exists is a guy who is only attracted to men and another guy who is mostly attracted to men. The labels we use to refer to them are arbitrary.)I am not saying you shouldn't use phrases like "Bob is gay." They're both useful and unavoidable. I'm suggesting that, if you want to improve your rationality, you'll see such phrases as shorthands and, when you have the time, try to unpack them. When I say someone is gay, what traits and behaviors am I referring to? See http://lesswrong.com/lw/np/dispu...5. I practice writing and speaking in e-prime. It's a constrained version of English in which you're not allowed to use any form of "to be." I spent a year forcing myself to write in e-prime, and it improved both my thinking and my writing. (I also resolved not to tell anyone I was doing it, which made me labor to make my e-prime prose sound natural.) When you drop "to be," you will discover many pockets of irrationality in your thinking.  (When you're unable to drop it, you should ask why.)(I allowed myself to use "to be" in quotations.) As with any any new form of writing, e-prime will be hard for you at first, but you'll slowly get better at it and eventually it will feel natural to you.See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-...6. I explain or teach my ideas to other people, and if someone doesn't understand all or part of my argument, I assume it's my fault. Perhaps a better way to say this is "take responsibility for it." This habit is so useful to me and such a great indicator of the clarity of my thoughts, I assume that if I can't explain something so that everyone understands it, I don't fully understand it either.Of course, it's possible the other person is simply stupid or lacks context. But you'll do your rationality great favors if you assume there's some way you can make him understand, and he hasn't understood so far because you've failed to be clear. Even do this (especially do this) if he's the only person out of a hundred who doesn't get your point. Instead of asking, "Why is he so stupid?" ask "What am I doing wrong?"People who misunderstand are invaluable. They are like missiles which target weaknesses in your arguments. Maybe weaknesses in thinking; maybe weaknesses in explaining. (Which is almost the same thing.)The more stupid someone's objection seems, the more closely you should examine that part of your argument. It may be a case of genuine stupidity, or it may uncover bias on your part--bias that some aspect of your argument you're sure is clear is actually not. 7. I closely examine my "should" phrases. You may have heard of the chasm between "is" and "ought." You can't prove what someone should or shouldn't do by simply noting facts about the world. For instance, the fact that people suffer from racism does not mean you shouldn't be racist. To conclude that, you have to couple the fact with a value (e.g. suffering is bad.) See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is...I am not urging you to avoid "should." (And I'm certainly not arguing in favor or racism.) I am suggesting that you zoom in on your should phrases. They are nooks where irrationality tends to hide. We all  to get from is to ought, and we tend to do it without thinking. 8. I especially avoid should-phrases without the context of a goal. There is nothing anyone simply should do. People should do things if their goal is to be morally correct or because it's practical given a particular goal. Make sure you clarify your context. "Should I use a hammer?" makes no sense. For what? To pound nails, yes. To write with, no. "You should do your homework." No, you should do your homework if you want to get good grades in school or if you want your parents to be proud of you.9. I avoid agentless or passive writing and thinking. They are huge hotbeds of irrationality. - "Is boring, stable happiness preferable to an interesting but potentially less life involving more emotional risk?" Preferable to whom? Preferable for what? There's no such thing as unpreferableness that just floats around in the universe, disconnected from a person or people. Even if you think the "whom" is obvious, go ahead and state it. You may find a smidgen of irrationality has crept into your thinking. - "Have we lost all sense of shame?"Who is "we"? Americans? Young Americans? Young educated Americans? Europeans? World citizens? People in third-world countries? Me and my friends? Me? 10. If I'm on a side of some issue (abortion, liberalism vs conservatism, atheism vs theism), I need to figure out what's wrong with my side. Any major debate--one that has involved millions of people for many years--is bound to be complex. But our attraction to binary opposites tends to blind us to irrationality. I'm not saying be a relativist and or that all options are equally good or valid. I'm saying most good medicines have side effects. They're not simply good with absolutely no downsides. If you're a liberal, what's wrong with liberalism? Even if it's better than the alternative, what are some bad thing that can happen if we have liberal governments in power? If you're a conservative, what's wrong with conservatism? Be careful when answering that you don't give a left-handed insult like those people who, when asked about their weaknesses in job interviews, say, "I'm sometimes too diligent for my own good." And make sure you don't just talk about "bad liberals" or "bad conservatives." What problems does liberalism, when well practiced, create? What problems does conservatism create--regular conservatism, not as practiced by crazy extremists?If you can't think of an answer or you have very little to say on the subject, maybe that's because your side is simply perfect. But be skeptical. It may also be the case that you're biased and blinded by one of the most powerful forces that affect our species: tribalism.

Till the age of 32, I did not know what good writing meant. Nobody taught me or demanded it from me.Throughout my schooling (in Kendriya Vidyalaya) and college, ‘quality writing’ was not even a thing. I doubt if even any of my English teachers knew how to write well. Essays were just meant to fill the pages with words (e.g., write a 1000 word essay on blah…).Working in the IPS further wrecked my writing skills.Here is a typical Sarkari communication - “Your kind attention is drawn to the reference cited. Your good self may kindly be pleased to take appropriate action. I will be highly obliged if the undersigned could be informed about the outcome.”Full of passive voice, verbosity… you name it.For my MBA applications, for the first time, I had to tell a story. Since I was competing with a global pool of applicants, I was forced to up my game. That was my first attempt at good writing.At McKinsey, I could further sharpen my skills since I spent as much time on writing as on problem-solving.I still have a long way to go, but here are a few lessons. I am assuming that the reader already has the basic grammar and composition sorted.Let us start with a few hygiene factors:Omit needless words:I picked this from Strunk and White’s classic on writing. Unnecessary words are like dust on a glass window - they muddy up the beauty of your writing.A few examplesInstead of ‘In order to achieve our goals’, just say ‘To achieve our goals.’Don’t write ‘In my opinion, we should do blah…’ Just say ‘We should do blah…’ Your writing is your opinion, anyway.Use active voice: Instead of, ‘The project was done by two interns,’ make it, ‘Two interns did the project.’Cut down the use of adjectives/adverbs: Don’t say, ‘The exam was very hard.’ Just say, ‘The exam was hard.’Show, don’t tell.“The journey to the peak was an arduous climb” - this ‘tells’ the reader, who has to recreate the feeling in his head.“Halfway up the journey, my calf muscles were on fire” - This is better as the reader can feel that it was arduous. We don’t have to tell.Stick to the rules, but not all the time. When you break the rules, it should be intentional, and it should hit the reader.The above will make your writing clean and easy to read. But to make people cry or laugh or angry, you need to give it some punch.Here are a few suggestions:Edit mercilessly. The punch comes from editing, not from the first draft.Ask yourself, ‘What is the key point.’ Delete all the other words. Then add back words only if they really change the meaning. See example below:A bad, verbose example: “Based on the facts and our past experience, we have a few corrective actions to recommend. We suggest that the client at least starts with the following three initiatives - A, B, and C.”.Better, tighter writing: “To conclude, we recommend three initiatives - A, B, and C.”After a round of editing, take a break and come back after a few hours, or a day. You will be surprised at the number of mistakes you will catch.If you are just starting, try cutting down the word count of the first draft by 50%. Trust me - it will become better.Some people say ‘Write only when you are angry.’ Don’t wait for the right mood, but feel the rage, the excitement, or the fear if you want to move the reader.Specifics over generality:Instead of saying, ‘The affluence level in country A has gone up a lot in the last 50 years’Try saying something like, ‘Today, every family in country A has two cars on average. Fifty years back, only the king had one.’Don’t be afraid to offend. Don’t please everyone. Hit hard.Storify it. Facts and data don’t move people. One thousand people dead or 100,000 people dead - it is just a few more zeros. But stories evoke emotion.E.g., the Syrian civil war killed lakhs, but it did not move anyone. But the photo of Aylan Kurdi, a toddler who died when his family was immigrating, changed the sentiments of Europe towards Syrian immigrants. Before that, tens of thousands of kids were killed, but nobody cared. Why? Because we can relate to stories but not statistics.Before I finish, here is an important disclaimer:I am not a professional writer. My training is in Finance and Engineering. Hence please treat the above as learnings of an amateur, and not an authoritative set of rules.In summary: Write a lot. Edit brutally. Cut out the junk. Feel the rage. Tell the story. Don’t dilute. Write fearlessly.Best wishes- RajanNote: I removed the photo of Aylan Kurdi since some readers found it distressing. But we should ask ourselves, why?Lakhs of people have died in Syria, and yet we can easily close our eyes to that. But one story has the power to change the way we think. Remember, closing our eyes does not change reality. It only hides it from us.

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1) As a beginner, don't clog your brain with declensions. Focus on what you need in order to get your point across, i. e. other grammar rules, conjugations and lots of vocabulary. Lower class native speakers don't get declensions right either, so Germans will understand you just fine. 2) Before you learn anything else, learn the forms of "möchte". It's technically conditional mood (the exact translation is "would like"), which means that some textbooks teach it really late, but it's so versatile that it's hard to imagine a conversation without it. Learn it early and use it often. Ich möchte ein Bier. Ich möchte gehen. Möchten Sie mit mir tanzen? Ich möchte morgen das Brandenburger Tor sehen. Etc.3) The key rule for word order is that the main verb comes always in second position, no matter if the first position in a sentence is taken up by the subject (!), place, time, manner or even an entire sub-clause. When there is more than one verb, or in a sub-clause, the verbs pile up at the very end, after every unimportant detail.4) Compared to Romance languages where you have to learn different endings for different types of verbs, German verbs are nice in that the endings always stay the same, barring some common-sense adjustments like not wanting to wind up with unpronounceable consonant clusters. Also, German has less tenses than Spanish or French. There are two difficulties: 'strong' verbs and irregular verbs. Strong verbs change their vowel - but the way they change is usually predictable. Read some tables and you will notice the patterns, just like in English there is "ring - rang - rung", "sing - sang - sung", "sink - sank - sunk", etc.  Actually German verbs often have the same vowel changes as English ones if they're related, for example in German the equivalents of the previously-mentioned verbs are "singen - sang - gesungen" and "sinken - sank - gesunken".5) When it comes to the past tense, German is much simpler than English, Spanish or French in that conversations about the past are always in the perfect tense and written texts are always in the preterite tense. The only exception is for auxiliary verbs and modal verbs, which are so common that people don't want to say e. g. "ist gewesen" (perfect) and use "war" (preterite) instead in order to save time. So if you remember war, hatte, konnte, durfte, musste, wollte, you can use the perfect tense for everything else (until such time as you have to write essays in German, and by then you will hopefully have memorized most irregular preterite forms from having read a lot).6) The conditional form of verbs is usually the same as the preterite except with an extra Umlaut:  war (was) -> wäre (would be)hatte (had) -> hätte (would have)konnte (was able) -> könnte (would be able)durfte (was allowed) -> dürfte (would be allowed)musste (had to) -> müsste (would have to)mochte (liked) -> möchte (would like)wurde (became) -> würde (would become)etc.Actually, you shouldn't need any apart from the ones I listed. Ignore the Konjunktiv 1 completely (Germans forget it as soon as they leave high school) and always replace the Konjunktiv 2 with "würde" + infinitive. Unless you're going for a career in journalism, that's all you'll ever need. 7) When you learn declensions, familiarize yourself with the forms of der, die, das. Pay particular attention to how the "das" forms are almost the same as the "der" forms except in the Accusative (it goes back to old Indo-European that the Nominative of a neuter is formed like the Accusative, and German continues that tradition), and how the plural forms are almost the same as the feminine forms except for Dative. Also note how all words ending in -ein get the same endings, no matter if it's ein, kein, mein or whatever.8) When having to decide between Dative and Accusative, there are two fast rules: 1. If there's no preposition and the noun is a thing, it will be Accusative. Dative is only used for people/animals and after some prepositions. Unfortunately people can be either Dative or Accusative. When there is more than one object in a sentence (e. g. I give something to someone), they cannot both be the same case.2. Most prepositions can only be used with one particular case (if you read that some are used with Genitive, ignore that as pedantry and use Dative instead). For those that can be used with either Accusative or Dative, remember that Accusative is for directions and Dative is for static locations, same as in Latin.9) Adjective endings are determined based on not just the case but also the preceding article or lack thereof, with the basic idea being that one of the words has to show the case ending. If the article doesn't allow you to say what case a word is, then the adjective has to tell you. Now it may look very daunting to learn the adjective endings if you stare at huge tables such as the one Greg found, but in fact there's a very simple set of questions you could memorize instead. If you ever respond YES, do what it says and stop, otherwise continue with the next question:Does the adjective stand on its own, without an article? If so, the adjective gets the same ending as the article would have, e. g.  die Frau -> deutschE Frau,  dem Mann -> deutschEM Mann, etc. Is the article different from its dictionary form? I. e. is it possible to tell the case from it? If so, the adjective doesn't need to indicate the case, it will get the "bland" -en ending.Is the noun plural? If so, the adjective also gets the "bland" -en ending.Finally, is this article different for masculine and neuter? If so, the adjective will end in -e. If not, the adjective will have to show the word gender, so it gets -er for masculine or -es for neuter words.Obviously I never had to memorize these since I'm a native speaker, but my boyfriend did and found that the process of finding the right endings this way became automatic within a few days.Hope you find this helpful!There's a Quora topic "Learning Languages" that doesn't have nearly as many followers as it should have. Consider following it. Also, I have a Quora blog about languages and language-learning: Selected Language Posts.