This is similar advice to one of the Atomic Habits chapters about identity. You might find it a chore to go the gym if you frame it to yourself that way. But if you call yourself an athlete, or just "i'm a fit person" and that becomes part of your identity, it's easier to do. Works for me so far.
I thought about Atomic Habits when I read this too. The flip side that I think was also interesting to me was a few chapters later when the author talks about not letting any single identity become too overpowering.
> Avoid making any single aspect of your identity an overall proportion of who you are. Keep your identity small. The more you let a single belief define you, the less capable you are of adapting when life challenges you.
I read a similar method called shapeshifting which tries to one up this game. You need several titles and persons you know that are good in it then shapeshift into that identity on demand - eg on the night you gonna present an hour lecture for your peers give yourself the identity of a great presenter.
I never put it into practice I just find the idea interesting :)
Did this 20 years ago, it was called Schoeneswochenende Fahrkarte "Good weekend" ticket. You could get all over the country, but real slow. I met loads of people and got invited to people's homes, because they didn't typically see an Aussie backpacker on a local train. Great times, go do it.
Yes, did that also. I live in California, but at the time my company had a group in Aachen that I worked with and I visited about four times a year. I often played tourist on the weekend and took trains all over the Rhineland. I used the cheap weekend ticket several times. But I usually didn't go that far, given my time constraints.
Coming from Aachen and now living in California, I hope you had a good time! I think Aachen already has a quite "cute city" vibe to it, and there's many nice places to reach within a few hours, like Cologne, Düsseldorf, Bonn, and even parts of the Netherlands and Belgium!
Yes! I went from Stuttgart to Berlin using the Schoeneswochenende Fahrkarte like 20 year ago, it took some time but since we were a group of friends, it was fun actually :) Ahh.. good memories
Was fun for a while and mostly for myself. A few 100 ppl used it, but I found I didn't really enjoy reading that way as I thought I would... especially when Covid killed commutes.
I had the Delaware registration / California operating setup. The wind down is just as many steps. Cancelling sales / use tax registrations, the SoS registration, making your FTB tax is all paid and then cancelled in both states. Making sure both state and federal returns are marked final and don't close your bank account until you've paid them all.
-A gets you the AS, my tool looks up the name. So you can see "Oh, it goes from Comcast, to Cogent to Google." cool. Rather than ASNs which you don't immediately recognize.
