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Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 21 February 2010 08:18:47PM *  1 point [-]

Leechblock +8. Execute by Default +2

Autofocus and the Pomodoro Technique are both 0s; I gave up on them but I plan to try them again some time in the future.

The thing that's helped me the most is to realize that my productivity is related to my morale and that I should do things that are good for my morale and avoid things that are bad for my morale. Also, working out lots of little bugs like criticizing myself internally if I was working on the right problem in a suboptimal way but not criticizing myself at all if I was working on the wrong problem. I figure if I want cooperation from my inner chimpanzee I should try to provide him with positive reinforcement when I'm doing better than average (but maybe not negative reinforcement when I'm doing worse than average; I don't think negative reinforcement works well for getting myself to do things that require thinking.)