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If you feel stuck it means you need new habits because the old ones are not serving you well! Program your environment, set up commitment devices to lock in yo
by spxneo 3y ago
If you feel stuck it means you need new habits because the old ones are not serving you well!
Program your environment, set up commitment devices to lock in your future behaviour that is positive and effortless.
Do not ever set goals, they are high-risk low pay off mental bets that will eat you if you fail (odds are against you).
- copperx 3y agoWhat is an example of a commitment device?
- spxneo 3y agoaddicted to smartphones? leave it behind when you go to study at the library and you have no choice but to study. you are not hitting the gyms for the 10 years you been telling people? subscribe to a local gym on the way to or back from work! (brain: "well i already spent money and its too embarassing to cancel now and besides the gym is literally down the same street i dont even have to drive there welp guess im going")
- mimischi 3y agoThis might be cliche, but if you can afford to (time and money), have a go at „Atomic Habits“ by James Clear. It’s an easy and enjoyable read, that outlines a framework of how you can build new habits and get rid of your old, unwanted ones.
- spxneo 3y agoyeah pretty much thats where all my quotes are from i recommend this book to everyone i meet it is life changing
- paulgerhardt 3y agoIf "Atomic Habits" doesn't sit with you (I found the endless anecdotes about the author's high school baseball career detracting) I recommend "Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals" - it's slightly less targeted to fans of Ryan Holiday/Tim Ferris and slightly more targeted to productivity hack tooling reformed/burnt-out individuals.
- spxneo 3y agohe only talks about his experience through his rehabilitation in the first chapter the rest of the book he draws from real world examples from other industries and history to illustrate the specific point. i think they are very practical as it is easier to remember stories than recalling step by step points
- copperx 3y agoI couldn't take the book seriously after the "you just need to improve 1% every day" as if improving 1% constantly was somehow attainable by mere mortals. If I can bench press 20 lbs today and improve 1% every day, I'll be bench pressing more than 700 lbs a year from now. Yeah, it doesn't work that way. If I read 10 pages a day, and improve 1% every day, by the end of the year I will be reading a 370+ page book every day! This is perhaps one of the dumbest things I've read. And that was supposed to motivate me!?
- PartiallyTyped 3y agoI found that it is extremely difficult for me to set habits and keep them. I used to go running 4-5 times a week for months, and I couldn't make it stick.
- spxneo 3y agoThe best way to build a positive habit is to make it not painful and easy. Heres my advice: If 4-5 times a week is not sustainable then make it 100x less (whatever point you feel is not painful). If you used to run 50km a week, try 500m each session. Fight the urge to continue running. The goal of this exercise is to build the "show up" muscle. Another hack on top of this is to not tell yourself you are going for a run, you just need to put on the running shoes. (brain: "i put on my shoes might as well go for a run now") Step further is you go to sleep in your running clothes. Principle is to always reduce friction of good habits you want to build and add friction to bad habits you want to stop! Godspeed
- ausbah 3y agoI think goals are good to define what you’re trying to work towards, but you need concrete actions you will take to get there
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