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It is possible for you to overcome your laziness and impulsiveness and direct your attention toward things that help your long-term goals. There are a lot of li
by anonymoushn 10y ago
It is possible for you to overcome your laziness and impulsiveness and direct your attention toward things that help your long-term goals. There are a lot of little pieces to doing this. One of them that I'm doing right now is reading "The Willpower Instinct" and trying out the stuff in it. If you want a more expensive, harder to ignore way to do this, you could try going to a CFAR camp.
I'm not affiliated with CFAR or anything, this is an option I am seriously considering though.
- peteretep 10y agoI have looked at CFAR before, and have inhaled any amount of self development literature. The only thing I don't struggle to find intrinsic motivation for is programming. I am yet to find a long term goal that resonates at all. All success so far in my life feels entirely attributable to getting bored and saying "what else is there?" and/or seeking external validation. I earn just enough to fly business class whenever I fly because I enjoy the comfort aspect and the external validation that comes with it. The next financial jump is likely to come from wanting to fly private, because why not? It seems self evident to me that this is deeply unhealthy, but ironically I'm yet to find a solution.
- anonymoushn 10y agoOh, alright. This is a bit different from my experience. I've pretty consistently had long-term desires but been pretty bad at enacting them. Earlier when I didn't really want anything I thought it would be nice to make a bunch of money so that my future self who had a better idea about what he wanted would have that. This turned out ok, currently a lot of what I want is to know that I won't have to work if I don't want to.