OK, I tried to suppress it but I'm letting it out.
I got tired of all the articles on doing something in a specific way. It's far too personal and everyone of us has the mental capacity to overcome serious problems with a solution of his own. A solution which, IMHO, can't be documented since it's just how our (individual) brain works and solves real problems.
The "Do Something in this way and you should benefit" is far too overrated, since it's one person's perspective and in no way should be taken too seriously, other than a short "advice" or a story to read before going to bed.
Therefore, I see no real value in posts like this, other than the editor's need to "let it out".
1. Brains are similar. How similar? We don't know until we tell someone else about what our own brain is doing, and find out that their brain works the same way. Some things might only work for one person. Some might work for 20% of people. Some might work for 99% of people. Nothing works for everyone, of course. Are you imagining that, instead of articles like this, we only see articles about things that work for everyone? That would be an empty set.
2. Anecdotes are meant to be used as grist for Bayesian updating. What I personally gleaned from this article was a slightly heightened confidence that your brain works at a certain speed whether you are pushing it to work or not, or worrying over its success or not, or whatever else--so it's better to just allow your brain to work, than put yourself in emotional turmoil over its need to find the solution. The technique itself (though see #1) isn't the important part of the article; rather, it's the knowledge found through the use of the technique--even though it was only implicitly stated!--that made the article valuable. The technique was only relevant in the way that a description of the experimental process and apparatus is relevant to a scientific paper: for rigor and replication of the original discovery.
I don't understand this response. Just because any individual such post may not work for you, if you read 100 such posts, you might come across a technique that works spectacularly for you. Much of life is about trial and error to discover what one is good at and how one is good at it. Hearing about what others have discovered in this regard cannot hurt our individual searches.
I got tired of all the articles on doing something in a specific way. It's far too personal and everyone of us has the mental capacity to overcome serious problems with a solution of his own. A solution which, IMHO, can't be documented since it's just how our (individual) brain works and solves real problems.
The "Do Something in this way and you should benefit" is far too overrated, since it's one person's perspective and in no way should be taken too seriously, other than a short "advice" or a story to read before going to bed.
Therefore, I see no real value in posts like this, other than the editor's need to "let it out".