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What's a thing that increased your power? (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by LesserAbe@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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Doesn't have to be a thing you bought. Just some thing you didn't have but then once you did it expanded your scope of actions.

The first obvious example that comes to mind is a car. Plenty of drawbacks to prevalence of cars, but being able to go where I want when I want, and far away, is very transformative.

I'm interested in other examples of things that aren't just useful, but that open new possibilities.

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[-] angrymouse@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Taking lithium as a bipolar, my life started there

[-] Case@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 10 months ago

I'm currently off my bipolar meds, against my will. Insurance change required a doctor change, and finding anyone who was available within a months time was not possible.

I need shit to get back to "normal" in my brain. I'm not doing well. I wasn't before, but yeah...

Only a couple more days until my appointment. I had one last week, and they sent me to the wrong place, coupled with a whole slew of other issues, and I said fuck em. Thankfully found someone the second time around pretty quickly.

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[-] TheInsane42@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Relying on a basic understanding how things/situations work.

At a new school, I really messed up a math test. I was studying like crazy, learned all formulas that I would need and managed to apply them all in each question on the test, combining all off them each question. Lowest score possible (1 out of 10), as I really messed up. Next test I didn't study, I jusy flipped trough the book, checked 1 situation I didn't understood and made the test. On handing out the teacher asked what I did different then the previous test. I told him I didn't study, I just checked if it was logically to me and decided I understood as much as I could. He told me to do just that on all tests and I'd have no problems with education and gave me the result, a perfect score. (10 out of 10)

That was 34y ago and still I want to understand things and see the logic behind it. Works perfectly on almost everything. (Humans behavious still mostly eludes me though, totally illogical 🤨)

[-] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 3 points 10 months ago

(Humans behavious still mostly eludes me though, totally illogical 🤨)

We're not rational, but there are patterns. If you're willing to do some reading Thinking: Fast and Slow is beefy, but helps to show some of the patterns of irrationality in a structured way, from one of the leading experts on human behavior. If that's too much, Thinking in Bets is a nice taster that still is well backed by much of the same research, but is shorter and more accessible.

[-] TheInsane42@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Interesting... time to dive into those books.

[-] xylogx@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Creatine

[-] xkforce@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

When I figured out how to run computational chemistry software on my home pc. It entirely changed how I saw chemistry because I could tinker and experiment with (virtual) molecules on a grand scale. Being able to run five maybe ten thousand simulations significantly increased my understanding.

[-] technomad@slrpnk.net 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Going super sayan.

[-] kingblaaak@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

stopped getting fussed over things outta my control

[-] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

AI as of late has helped a lot.

[-] 6mementomori@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

an oscilloscope.

[-] technomad@slrpnk.net 3 points 10 months ago

Speaker enthusiast?

[-] and@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

Power increasers.

[-] Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

I was bitten by a radioactive spider

[-] metaStatic@kbin.social 3 points 10 months ago

Cool, Will I get super powers?

No this is the real world, you just have cancer now.

[-] PatFussy@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

I ate a Snickers once

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