Just_existing comments on Make your training useful - Less Wrong

93 Post author: AnnaSalamon 12 February 2011 02:14AM

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Comment author: JGWeissman 12 February 2011 07:21:33AM 10 points [-]

You have to learn to be productive on demand rather than when you're in the mood for it.

That sounds like a way to end up spending your in the mood for productivity time undoing the damage you do when you try to be productive on demand.

Comment author: Just_existing 27 July 2012 09:39:43PM 1 point [-]

A while ago i started to motivate myself with good old conditioning. Every time I started to work on a project I ate an M&M. (I actually got the idea from the very first lecture from what will soon be the "Center of Modern Rationality" concerning the sunken cost fallacy.) This "technique" worked suprisingly well. After a while my subconciousness seemed to become a little less reluctant to start working. My "mod" was better. Could be a placebo effect of course, and could only work on myself, but its cost nothing to try. Let me know please if someone actually does.