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How Leveraged are Your Resolutions?
- jrockway 16y agoI disagree. If your goal is "go to bed earlier" you'll be able to wake up earlier. This does not cause a novel to be written. If your goal is "write a novel", then you are only making progress toward your goal when you're actually writing a novel.
- rb2k_ 16y agoYou're not writing a novel when you're hungry or tired. When most of the "lower levels" of Maslov's Pyramid are satisfied, THAT is the time you can actually be productive with the "fancy" things like writing a novel
- igrekel 16y agoIts also when you'll "need" those higher levels to improve in order to feel good.
- danparsonson 16y agoI think the key is in the line "Modifying behaviors at lower levels automatically improves behaviors at higher levels". Of course you're only making visible progress towards writing your novel when you're actually writing, but if getting to bed earlier enables you to write more in a day (say, because you have more productive time available to you - some people work better in the mornings) then your novel-writing goal is accelerated by your getting-to-bed-earlier goal. Hence 'leverage'.
- sleight42 16y agoThere's a whole different kind of leverage to consider here: What will you lose if you fail to meet your resolution? Will it hurt you if you fail? If not, it should! Otherwise what is the source of your will to change?