John_Maxwell_IV comments on Roommate interest and coordination thread - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 02 August 2012 09:48:42PM *  12 points [-]

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Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 05 August 2012 03:25:38AM *  4 points [-]

Try planning tomorrow out in advance every evening, and iteratively discover what works?

All my motivational breakthroughs came when I stopped trying to figure out what I "really wanted to do", ala Paul Graham's How to Do What You Love, and started setting and accomplishing goals because I wanted to goals accomplished for their own sake (as opposed to because I thought the act of working towards the goals themselves would be intrinsically fulfilling).