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If I ever become rich and famous, I'm sure I'll be besieged with requests for "how to do better in life". I hereby head such requests off at the pass, by providing a list of [lifehacks] I am either using or considering the use of.
* For learning smallish but numerous facts (such as a list of theorems), I use [Anki], which is a [spaced-repetition] learning system, allowing you to enter flashcards and have them shown to you regularly. The time between repetitions of a certain flashcard changes, depending on how well you've been doing on that flashcard - so marking your performance on a particular card as "easy" rather than "hard" tells Anki that you don't want to see that card for a while. It's a bit like the antithesis of cramming, where you see the material exactly once and use it a short time later; Anki is designed for reviewing the material many times (at an optimal spacing) for recall whenever you need it. The idea is to make use of the [spacing effect] - an extremely powerful memory technique that is currently ignored by almost all methods of formal teaching ([Memrise] is a notable exception; I used Memrise until I used Anki).
* A surprisingly good way of making myself work when I'm feeling unmotivated is to gather a few like-minded friends and to work in absolute silence with them (possibly on completely unrelated topics). Oddly, I'd not thought of it until reading <a title="Co-working LessWrong post" href="http://lesswrong.com/lw/gwo/coworking_collaboration_to_combat_akrasia/" target="_blank">a LessWrong post on the subject</a>. There's a kind of "all in this together" feeling, as well as the public commitment effect.
* A surprisingly good way of making myself work when I'm feeling unmotivated is to gather a few like-minded friends and to work in absolute silence with them (possibly on completely unrelated topics). Oddly, I'd not thought of it until reading [a LessWrong post on the subject](http://lesswrong.com/lw/gwo/coworking_collaboration_to_combat_akrasia/). There's a kind of "all in this together" feeling, as well as the public commitment effect.
* I use [f.lux], an application which dims and tints red the computer screen after dusk. I have no idea whether or not it has any effect on wakefulness at night (that is, whether or not being bathed in a standard blue glow keeps me awake), but it certainly feels nicer on the eye.
* I am currently in the middle of learning [Dvorak], which is a keyboard layout (QWERTY is the usual one) that is supposedly easier on the hands than QWERTY. It puts vowels all together in easy-to-reach places, and the most common consonants in easy places such that words tend to be made of letters which lie in different hands. (In QWERTY, for example, the word "the" is oddly hard to type, for such a common word - all the characters are away from the home row - but in Dvorak it's just a simple flourish from right to left on the home row.) A friend tells me that [Colemak] is better than Dvorak, but I'd already half-learnt Dvorak by the time ey told me this, and Dvorak interfered heavily with my attempts to learn Colemak. It appears to be much of a muchness, anyway - both are considerably better than QWERTY.
* I don't know if it qualifies as a lifehack - more of a biohack or something - but [lucid dreaming] is really cool, and it doesn't take an enormous amount of commitment to learn to do (it just requires the setting up of a few habits throughout the day).