Not sure what you mean by “system,” so I’m just going to answer a thing I wish someone explained to me much earlier.
Not everyone feels hunger cues, so “just eat when you’re hungry” can be bad advice.
I learned about anorexia nervosa as an eating disorder in middle and high school. People worried about me because I was thin and didn’t eat a lot, but I didn’t try to stay skinny and I ate when I was hungry, so I knew I didn’t have that. Ironically, learning about EDs made me sure I didn’t have a problem.
In college I took a class that defined anorexia as “a lack of appetite,” identifying it could be a drug side effect, from stress, or just how someone’s body is. It differentiated “anorexia” from “anorexia nervosa.” That opened my eyes that I did have disordered eating, but it was from physiology, not psychology.
I trained myself how to eat enough, but I still have to be careful not to fall back into old habits since I don’t have normal hunger cues. It’s constant work that might have been easier if I started building these habits from a younger age.
Yeah mine is a medication side effect so that’s been fun to navigate. But honestly I find it better than my previous issue of eating constantly all the time and feeling like I had no control over it. Turns out I was dopamine seeking. Ugh ADHD lol.
You can just go to the TA’s office hours for free homework help.
YES!! And even the prof has office hours.
As a TA, I loved it when students actually showed up. They had better questions than during class, and they always did better in class in the end. Office hours are one of the great college cheat codes. 90% of office hours are spent wishing someone would just show up…
Most of the time people want connection / to be heard, more than solutions to their problems.
well they shouldnt have such easily solvable problems then
lol how dare they
Someone explained this to me as:
It’s not that people don’t want solutions, talking about their problems IS the solution. In fact “talking about it” is so effective that some people successfully earn their living with it.
The vast majority of advice you will ever hear about anything is medicinal - it’s contextual to a specific set of circumstances, and is meant to deal with a certain problem or a particular type of situation. Most advice is not applicable universally, even if it is sometimes good advice.
Following from this, if you get someone sharing a piece of advice, consider if that advice suits your circumstances before following it. People have different lives, and not everything everyone tells you will be helpful advice for every situation. Like medicine.
The flipside of this is what a friend once dubbed “terminal uniqueness.” Just because you aren’t in the exact same situation as others does not mean their advice won’t work for you, your life isn’t that unique
Marxists would agree that few things apply universally, and they always consider the context, or “material conditions.” When liberals say Marxists are dogmatic, they’re showing their ignorance.
I agree but isn’t this off-topic to the comment you’re replying to?
Liberals saying Marxists are dogmatic is meaningless. Liberals don’t even have a coherent ideology, their understanding of what constitutes a dogma is practically the same as a rock’s.
So true.
That you don’t actually have to do everything perfectly, doing more things but 80% correctly is usually better
This is a good idea except when I look at my stack of unpublished novels.
You can HEAR music by LISTENING to it and trying to imitate it.
Sheet music is as much a trap as a tool.
Wow!
I am most definitely suffering from one of these that I still haven’t figured out yet. probably financial shit which is the most boring thing in the whole universe to me.
Not sure how old you are or what stage of life you are in but if you really want to get on top of finances and hate dealing with finances, look into hiring a fiduciary.
They may require more overall worth before taking you on as a client but they can give you a plan yo follow to get there.
If you do qualify then they can handle all of the financial stuff for you. Note these aren’t just accountants or money managers but they are required by law to work in your fidicuiary interest. Usually charge by a percentage of worth so it is in their best interest to make you money because then they make more money.
The initial plan to follow is a stepping stone to get where you want to be financially with the goal of the fiduciary handling everything for you. I honestly wish I knew about them in my 20’s instead of decades later.
I wont lie, a good budget saved my ass. That being said, not enough income can’t be fixed by a budget but it might help you find where you can trim your finances.
Yes. Me too.
