wedrifid comments on Get Curious - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wedrifid 23 February 2012 01:47:34PM 3 points [-]

Curiosity is one possible motivation that forces you to actually look at evidence. Fear is more reliable and can be used when curiosity is hard to manufacture.

Fear can be powerful but it is far from reliable and usually not used best for ongoing motivation of any kind.

Comment author: [deleted] 23 February 2012 02:47:18PM *  2 points [-]

It depends on the kind of fear. The fear of going off my beeminder roads is good enough to motivate me to stay on them. YMMV.

Comment author: wedrifid 23 February 2012 03:00:30PM 1 point [-]

It depends on the kind of fear. The fear of going off my beeminder is good enough to motivate me to stay on them. YMMV.

It quite possibly would (vary). I have developed something of a "@#%@# you!" attitude to threats that are ongoing and try to reserve fear as an exception-oriented motivation device.

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