danlucraft comments on Humans are not automatically strategic - Less Wrong
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Perhaps the only way to train yourself to achieve long-term goals is to use short-term motivation to improve your automatic behaviours, instead of trying to train ourselves to have motivational systems that work on long-term multi-step plans.
What if we broke down the action steps of your algorithm into:
So, forget about long-term plans. Instead select and implement short-term plans that:
So, for example, starting a startup is less Step 1 of a Grand Plan to become a millionaire, and more a way to put yourself in a situation where you will have to do things that you think help towards becoming a millionaire, and will change you into more the kind of person who does things that make you a millionaire.
Of course, this whole thing is just one big long-term plan after all :) But it's a more specific one.