Swimmer963 comments on The Cognitive Costs to Doing Things - Less Wrong

39 Post author: lionhearted 02 May 2011 09:13AM

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Comment author: MichaelVassar 02 May 2011 11:02:14AM 6 points [-]

Note that most of these are more like muscles. You deplete in the short term but build in the long term.

Comment author: Swimmer963 02 May 2011 11:58:38AM 2 points [-]

Agreed, though I think a lot of that has to do with building the habit of doing something (or of doing new things). If you do one new thing a day that scares you and requires significant activation energy, after a while you'll expect it, and require less activation energy to make yourself do it.