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Why We Focus on Trivial Things:
Bikeshedding is a metaphor to illustrate the strange tendency we have to spend excessive time on trivial matters, often glossing over important ones. Here's why we do it, and how to stop.
How can we stop wasting time on unimportant details? From meetings at work that drag on forever without achieving anything to weeks-long email chains that don't solve the problem at hand, we seem to spend an inordinate amount of time on the inconsequential. Then, when an important decision needs to be made, we hardly have any time to devote to it.
To answer this question, we first have to recognize why we get bogged down in the trivial. Then we must look at strategies for changing our dynamics towards generating both useful input and time to consider it.
[...] Bike-shedding happens because the simpler a topic is, the more people will have an opinion on it and thus more to say about it. When something is outside of our circle of competence, like a nuclear power plant, we don’t even try to articulate an opinion.
But when something is just about comprehensible to us, even if we don’t have anything of genuine value to add, we feel compelled to say something, lest we look stupid. What idiot doesn’t have anything to say about a bike shed? Everyone wants to show that they know about the topic at hand and have something to contribute.
With any issue, we shouldn’t be according equal importance to every opinion anyone adds. We should emphasize the inputs from those who have done the work to have an opinion. And when we decide to contribute, we should be putting our energy into the areas where we have something valuable to add that will improve the outcome of the decision.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 09 2020, @09:23AM (2 children)
While you binge on Netflix, Alcohol, chips, burgers, and ice cream, the world is dying.
A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH AWAITS US, FRIENDS!
Those who endure to the end shall be saved!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 09 2020, @02:13PM (1 child)
Become aware of the fact that you're breathing. Don't try to control your breathing, just be aware that you are breathing. How do you feel?
You will find that through meditation, you can endure many things. Jesus will be there with you, when you are passive, simply watching your thoughts come and go like passing clouds. Just notice them, and don't judge them. How do your shoulders and gut feel?
Personally, I use strength exercises to keep myself nice and thin. Surya namaskar [wikipedia.org] is a good way to start the day. I don't do cardio at all; I've found it's counterproductive and just makes me more hungry. Eating raw garlic also helps by boosting the immune system and metabolism, and it aids in digestion. When my gut isn't happy, I'm not happy, and I can feel it when I notice that shoulders are tense.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 10 2020, @12:37AM
You forgot the yogurt for the probiotics to keep your system working.