Alternative
Benefit: Increases decision making
Prerequisites:
Description
When facing a problem we often think limitedly. We think about the first few things we can do select one of them and move forward. This is good for a lot of decisions but a certain number of decisions benefit greatly by exploring a bit more.
By doing this practice your mind will be able to come up with more possibilities.
Practice
- Think of a problem
- Think of all the solutions you can think of. Make sure to include obviously wrong solutions, which are still solutions.
- Once you've written down all solutions you can think of, write down 3 absurd solutions
Examples
Problem: Bf/gf is annoying
Solutions:
- Leave and put phone to airplane mode
- Call bf/gf parent and tell them their child is annoying and watch the parent scold the child
- Tell your SO (significant other) you're there to listen. You're there to help.
- Slap your SO
- Ask you SO to meditate with you
- Cry to your SO and blame them making yourself the victim
- Call your mom for help
- Jump out the window
- Scream as loud as you can, resetting your SO
Problem: Someone from a call center calls you.
Solutions:
- As soon as you realize close the phone
- Listen to her fully
- Politely reject her without waiting for her to reply
- Tell her you'll shove your foot up her ass if she doesn't get a new job
- Ask details about her, get her personal number and text her there
- Act like you're cutting off
- Make chewbacca noises
- Open a nice music and put the phone next to a speaker
- Open Rick Roll and same thing
- Give her your enemies number and ask her to call you there
- Tell her to call you next day at 6pm, each time she calls you
- Speak to her in another language
Problem: You're thirsty but don't feel like getting up
Solutions:
- Force yourself to get up
- Get up when the situation is dire
- Get up for something fun and while at it drink water
- Ask someone to hangout, now you have to get up
- Turn it into a game like crawling on the floor instead of walking
- Spit and lick your spit
- Call someone in the house to bring you water
- Order from a food delivery service and ask them to bring to your bed
- Yell I want water until someone brings it