OrphanWilde comments on Boring Advice Repository - Less Wrong

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Comment author: OrphanWilde 07 March 2013 07:28:46PM 2 points [-]

Find what works; if something doesn't work, find something else that does. If it stops working, immediately start looking for something else in turn.

I don't exercise at home because it's too easy to rationalize that I'll do it in five minutes, and never actually do it. Whereas if I go to the gym every day on my lunch hour, there's little room for procrastination.