Cached responses are very useful. When this topic comes up, I bring up X. When the gadget comes by, I add a gizmo to it. When you have a repetition of three, come up with a pattern-breaking, funny example for the last one.

But to have most of your words & actions to be cached is considered soul crushing.

Is to be dead.

Oh, so you're saying to just be more sPonTanEOus?

Sort'of! But "just be spontenanoeous" isn't helpful advice or even spelled correctly. The key is to become aware of:

Local Details Unique to Your Current Situation

In any long-term relationship, it's easy to fall into the same routines & canned responses. With my wife[1], making the same jokes with the same responses. Even if the joke is novel (liquer? I hardly know her!), the delivery, the response, are the same, are cached. HOWEVER!!! When paying attention to [...]

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Outline:

(00:44) Local Details Unique to Your Current Situation

(01:49) Being Forced to Consider Local Details

(03:44) Ground Hogs Day

(04:11) Being Trope Savvy

(05:48) Notice Your Goal

(06:29) A Meditation Pointer

(07:18) So Habits and Routines are Bad?

The original text contained 5 footnotes which were omitted from this narration.

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First published:
October 2nd, 2025

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/sAJ9sYbewjT3L3vBp/how-to-feel-more-alive

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

“How to Feel More Alive” by Logan Riggs

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