The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:
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Requests for advice and / or encouragement. On basically any topic and for any scale of problem.
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Updates to let us know how you are doing. This provides valuable feedback on past advice / encouragement and will hopefully make people feel a little more motivated to follow through. If you want to be reminded to post your update, see the post titled 'update reminders', below.
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Advice. This can be in response to a request for advice or just something that you think could be generally useful for many people here.
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Encouragement. Probably best directed at specific users, but if you feel like just encouraging people in general I don't think anyone is going to object. I don't think I really need to say this, but just to be clear; encouragement should have a generally positive tone and not shame people (if people feel that shame might be an effective tool for motivating people, please discuss this so we can form a group consensus on how to use it rather than just trying it).
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I gain a perverse pleasure from inputting the queries of random people online into ChatGPT.
I happened to throw in everything you said up till the specific criteria you envisoned, and to my surprise, it specifically recommended watches and furniture. To be clear, that's before you suggested them as options from yourself and your wife. Next token prediction is powerful. We're more transparent than we presume.
Then I read the rest of your comment, and ChatGPT suggested fine art as option 4, though that's the third and last thing you suggested. Huh.
Claude also suggests furniture and art, but also a nice piano or a grandfather clock.
If I ask it to be more creative, it suggests a custom stained glass window, a commissioned illuminated family history manuscript, a heritage garden installation, a commissioned tapestry or quilt.
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