文章强调了人们日常生活中常常陷入思维定势，依赖过往经验，阻碍了解决问题的进步。作者提出一个简单但有效的解决方案：每天尝试一件新事物来解决一个问题。文章通过修补摇晃的椅子和改善注意力分散等具体事例，生动说明了即使是微小的、持续的努力也能带来显著的改变。作者分享了自己如何通过尝试多种方法，如设定无电子时间、去图书馆、分块使用电子设备以及每周一天无电子日，来有效控制注意力，并最终实现了显著的进步，能够投入更多时间于有意义的活动。文章鼓励读者采纳这种“每日一新”的模式，以期在个人问题解决和生活质量提升上取得更大成就。

💡 **克服思维定势，拥抱每日新尝试：** 文章指出，人们常因依赖“缓存的思维和行动”而停滞不前，无法有效解决问题。作者提倡每天尝试一件新事物来解决一个具体问题，这是打破僵局、实现进步的关键。这种持续的、微小的探索性行动，能够逐步瓦解长期存在的难题。

🛠️ **小行动，大成效：** 通过修补摇晃的椅子和改善注意力分散的例子，文章证明了即便是看似微不足道的问题，通过付诸行动解决，也能带来即时的满足感和实质性的改善。例如，仅用几分钟和一次简单的操作就解决了椅子的问题，而针对注意力问题的多方面尝试，虽然过程曲折，但最终带来了可观的成效。

⏳ **管理注意力，重塑生活节奏：** 作者详细描述了为解决注意力不集中问题所做的多种尝试，包括设定无电子时间、利用图书馆资源、分时段使用电子设备以及实行每周无电子日。这些策略协同作用，有效中断了不良的反馈循环，使作者能够更快地从分心中恢复，并重新掌控自己的时间，投入到与家人交流、阅读和思考等更有价值的活动中。

🚀 **持续探索，加速问题解决：** 文章的核心论点是，通过坚持每天尝试解决问题的新方法，可以显著加速生活中的重大问题的解决进程。作者以自身经验为例，仅用一个月的时间就使最大的问题基本得到解决，并对未来一年的潜在进步充满期待，鼓励读者也踏上这段持续探索的旅程。

Published on October 3, 2025 5:08 PM GMT

People don't explore enough. They rely on cached thoughts and actions to get through their day. Unfortunately, this doesn't lead to them making progress on their problems. The solution is simple. Just do one new thing a day to solve one of your problems. 

Intellectually, I've always known that annoying, persistent problems often require just 5 seconds of actual thought. But seeing a number of annoying problems that made my life worse, some even major ones, just yield to the repeated application of a brief burst of thought each day still surprised me. 

For example, I had a wobbly chair. It was wobbling more as time went on, and I worried it would break. Eventually, I decided to try actually solving the issue. 1 minute and 10 turns of an allen key later, it was fixed. 

Another example: I have a shot attention span. I kept wasting all my time constantly refreshing pages in the hopes of the tiniest dopamine hit. This sucked. I couldn't read anything longer than a page without getting distracted, I couldn't practice skills for more than a moment, or write anything longer than a tweet. So I started to do one new thing a day to solve this. 

First, I decided to block out two hours in the morning free from electronics. This sorta worked. Then, I tried going to the library after the two hours were up. This sorta worked, too, and I used the computer sensibly there. But then the swarm of attention-hijacking processes out to get you which infest the internet got their hooks into me again, and I regressed. So I tried blocking out my time to use electronics in two hour blocks where I alternately can/can't use electronics. This kinda worked, but then I got cocky and thought myself immune to tight feedback loops and regressed. So I banned myself from electronics one day a week. And that sorta worked too. 

All of these things synergized to effectively paused my feedback loops, and were independent enough that even when my attention is hijacked again and I start doomscrolling, I can recover within a week or so instead of the months it might have taken before. And now I have enough time to be bored, I find myself doing things like talking to my family more, going to new libraries to read any book that catches my fancy, pick up my notepad to write down ideas when they catch my attention, set up co-working sessions with my team. 

None of the major issues in my life are fully solved. Or even mostly solved. Wait, scratch that, the biggest one is basically solved, partially due to trying new things out to solve my problems. But even for the rest, I've made so much more progress in the last year than before because I made the serendipitous choice to spend just one month trying new things every day to solve my problems. 

I can only imagine what doing that for a year would look like for me.  

What would it look like for you? 

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