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What is a streak-focused application?
by politicus1000 6y ago
What is a streak-focused application?
- toyg 6y agoThis thing where you are supposed to take satisfaction from looking at a "chain" of repeated tasks on your calendar and feeling so bad for "breaking" the streak that you'll keep doing it. There are quite a few out there. The effect on me is typically to increase my self-loathing when inevitably the chain breaks, and the feeling of "oh no, doing it all again will take so long!" discourages from picking myself up.
- PaulKeeble 6y agoChains don't really work the moment they get broken. Instead the alternate view that habits take about a month to form at least and you can only really change about 1% of a day every month is a better system that allows gaps and adjustments and systems built around our errors and unreliability and rewarding that long term habit building without the chain effect are a lot more effective long term.
- huhtenberg 6y agoAlso known as the "Don't break the chain" technique.
- quickthrower2 6y agoAnd the Seinfeld strategy