Cosmos comments on Urges vs. Goals: The analogy to anticipation and belief - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Cosmos 24 January 2012 08:32:45AM *  19 points [-]

I have also found Eat That Frog to be an unusually good collection of the major productivity techniques. Incidentally, I also heard about the book from Patri via Divia.

For a shorter and more rationality-friendly version of the book, I summarized it here:

EDIT: http://becomingeden.com/summary-of-eat-that-frog/

Comment author: AnnaSalamon 24 January 2012 08:41:27AM 11 points [-]

Great summary; just read it and bookmarked it. Much thanks for writing this. I had thought I needed to reread Eat That Frog but had been reluctant to take the hours required; now I don't have to.

Comment author: Cosmos 24 January 2012 08:48:51AM 3 points [-]

Thanks, I'm glad you found it useful! :)

Comment author: witzvo 15 October 2013 09:30:45PM 0 points [-]

The link didn't work for me today. Does it have a new home, by any chance?

Comment author: arundelo 15 October 2013 09:59:06PM 3 points [-]

http://becomingeden.com/summary-of-eat-that-frog/

Comment author: witzvo 15 October 2013 11:10:01PM 0 points [-]

Thanks!

Comment author: quentin 25 January 2012 07:02:29PM *  0 points [-]

I second that thank you!

Usually self-help books are way too fluffy for me to end up finishing (much less implementing), hopefully some of this will stick. Looks good so far :D

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