Fredrik's Experiments

One week with focus on kindness and giving Completed

Created by Fredrik Nov 11, 2011 | Category Spiritual

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Overview During this week I will focus on finding acts of kindness and giving to see what it gives me mentally. See experiment

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Fredrik This was fun and didn't require much effort from me. What I learnt was keeping more notice on other people to find situations to help out.

Jan 03, 2012

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Matthew Cornell Well done, Fredrik. Thanks for sharing it with us. I need to do more of this - good modeling. Re 'keeping an eye open for nice little things to do for others', I had a chance to do exactly that. We have a friend that my wife hikes with, and the friend is unstable while walking. She's fallen a few times, but still wants to get out. A few weeks ago I saw a hiker while I w... See more

3 days ago

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59 seconds

Created by Fredrik Nov 03, 2011 | Category Other

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Overview In the book "59 Seconds: Think a Little, Change a Lot" Wiseman presents quite a lot of self help tips where the results have been really studied. So it is more practical then "write down your goals and happiness will come" so I will break the book down and go through each suggestion he gives. So this ... See experiment

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Matthew Cornell Sounds great, Fredrik. This is an example of a "meta experiment" or "line of inquiry" that's composed of multiple experiments. I have some too.

Nov 09, 2011

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Fredrik Second step will be trying to create happiness by giving :
http://edison.thinktrylearn.com/experiments/show/487

Nov 11, 2011

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A one week diary Completed

Created by Fredrik Nov 04, 2011 | Category Health/Medicine

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Overview For 5 days I will write a diary with different goals each day:
Mon - List things for what I am grateful
Tue - Write about a life experience I liked
Wed - Write about a great future life
Thu - Write too someone what they mean to me
Fri - Write about things that went well last week See experiment

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Fredrik Final day so todays mission was to write down what went well the last week. I have been working hard and have fot the moment given up quite a few things I like to do. So it has been a lot of overtime and most nights I have been quite tired. But still looking back it was not hard to find one thing that have gone well the last few days and just thinking about one made mor... See more

Nov 11, 2011

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Fredrik Well that was one week of diarywriting completed so what did it actually do? Do I feel better? One of the big issues I have been having the last few years is to answer the question what do I want to do with my life. I used to be highly goalorientated but am now more living day to day. Writing thoughts on these different topics helps you to get an overview from the past ... See more

Nov 11, 2011

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Official Group Experiment Example

Peer Experiment

Created by Fredrik Feb 23, 2011 | Category Other

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Overview This is a demonstration experiment to show how group experiments work. It's a chance for people to learn-by-doing. More information is in the documentation at http://www.thinktrylearn.com/index.php/EdisonHelp See experiment

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Ascending daily workout Completed

Created by Fredrik Aug 21, 2010 | Category Other

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Overview A daily bodyweight workout with a fixed set each day that ascends each week. See experiment

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Fredrik Well I had to stop after something like 30 days in a row. I got a serious cold and couldn't proceed. But just by this short time I could feel that this is not the way to progress. It seems better to batch overload in some days and make sure to get rests in as well even though the load is not so high...

Sep 23, 2010

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Matthew Cornell I very much like that you learned this would not work for you. A completely valid result. Good experiment, and I hope you get well quick.

Sep 23, 2010

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Only do things I have planned Completed

Created by Fredrik Jul 12, 2010 | Category Other

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Overview For one week I will only engage in things I have written down and prioritized. I always jump on the newest issue showing up so I will try to do the opposite. See experiment

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Matthew Cornell Good experiment, Fredrik. Thanks for the summary. Avrum: Re tracking, I lay out some simple ways to collect data in my ebook (http://matthewcornell.org/products.html#where-did-my-day-go). Basically you tally or sum things of interest, such as # interruptions/day, # times pulled off-task, etc. Just paper and pen. Ask me if you need something more specific.

Jul 20, 2010

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Brock Tice Fredrik: I had similar problems at work in the past, where I was responsible for producing research, but I was the lab tech/Linux guru, so people would always interrupt me with questions and problems. I made some attempts to use a "Do Not Disturb" sign, or set a time in the afternoon specifically for that stuff, with moderate success. The most successful thin... See more

Jul 21, 2010

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Learning a new language Completed

Created by Fredrik Apr 22, 2010 | Category Other

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Overview Learn phrases to use as a tourist in Thailand.
Learn by using free sources from the web.
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Fredrik Back after the vacation I could I went a bit overboard when learning phrases to use. In the end I maybe used ten of them in three weeks as English still is the universal language. Had a great trip anyway and a fun experience in learning where I learned some techniques to speed it up.

Jun 21, 2010

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Matthew Cornell A big congratulations, Fredrik. I bet the trip was a mind blower.

Jun 22, 2010

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Ping Completed

Created by Fredrik Jan 01, 2010 | Category Other

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Overview I am going to spend some time per day "pinging" people. That is just contacting them to open the connection again and keep new connections alive. See experiment

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Lizzy Cool, thanks for the feedback. Great to have you as an early adopter!

Feb 25, 2010

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Matthew Cornell That's helpful feedback, Fredrik. I second Liza's thanks for jumping in early!

Feb 26, 2010

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