Jonathan_Graehl comments on Action and habit - Less Wrong

90 Post author: Swimmer963 02 June 2011 02:59PM

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Comment author: Swimmer963 03 June 2011 01:13:00AM 5 points [-]

I was thinking about that as I was writing this...I thought I'd mentioned it at some point, but I guess not. Thus telling my friends I'm going to go to the gym or the pool later makes it a lot more likely that I'll actually go, even if they can't verify whether I do or not. Useful tactic.

Comment author: Jonathan_Graehl 03 June 2011 01:14:11AM *  0 points [-]

You mentioned it. Since it's also true that everything (that you care about) affects your thoughts, consider my post a musing inspired by the first line of the poster, and nothing more.

Interpreting "destiny" to mean "your situation", the poster paints a true (incomplete) picture.