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Outsmarting Yourself for Success
- kappaknight 15y agoGood tips but the article was WAY too long. What a distraction...
- aniket_ray 15y agoSlightly tangential but I'm a huge fan of the dextronet's swift to-do list. I use a combination of swift's to-do list, gmail tasks and lazymeter to keep track of my TODOs. I find the todo list a very important tool in my productivity arsenal.
- sumukh1 15y agoThe article is long but the main lesson behind is to identify success paths and failure paths. Then make the changes so that the path of least resistance is the path to success. I love this and his other posts about goals. I've been researching this topic/field (relevant to what I'm doing) for the longest time and it's better than most other blogs about goals.
- tomjen3 15y agoThat sounds like a solid plan, and I have tried it in the past but I always get stuck on the problem that I am too smart (or too stupid) to trick myself. Or, and this may be worse, I look at the problem and say 'yes this would be nice, I like to be financially independent' and then take a look at what it would take to get there and then say 'but honestly the reward is not worth the effort'.
- slackson 15y agoI don't like the tone of this sort of piece. The capitalizations and bolding, the oversimplified assertions of "caveman brain" and "rational brain". It probably has valid advice, but it rings quackery alarms.
- MrMatters 15y agoIt's because it looks like a landing page for an internet marketing ebook. I scrolled to the bottom to make sure it wasn't that or a mailing list full of the secrets for success that somehow got to the frontpage.
- Harkins 15y agoIt's a landing page for a software to-do list. Somehow the guy lands the HN front page with a vague blog post every 2-3 weeks.
- kentosi 15y agoThe overuse of exclamation marks makes me cringe when I read this article. Nonetheless, he's got some solid points. I wish he gave more concrete examples rather than just the one on getting up early.
- majmun 15y agoCan't make yourself do something? try this: - First shut down all distractions , and go lay on bed. - Don't move or do anything until it is what you want to do. - go and do it. I tried this few times, it worked, it usually took me 15 min to 30 min to get up again and start doing work. (maybe for you will be different)
- AznHisoka 15y agoThis article is just about setting up your environment correctly so you don't need to rely on willpower as much. The book Switch, and the Happiness Hypothesis talked a lot about this.
- mistercow 15y agoI have not had much luck with this kind of strategy in the past, although I did successfully quit reddit by editing my hosts file.
- moeffju 15y agotl;dr: Set yourself up so that choosing a path leading to failure is harder than choosing the path leading to success. There is a kernel of truth in all the long-form dramatization.
- benkant 15y agoMore self-help masturbation on HN. Flagged.