TrE comments on Good luck, Mr. Rationalist - Less Wrong

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Comment author: TrE 29 April 2013 06:52:00PM 0 points [-]

This paragraph might come in handy. Why not attempt to raise motivation by inducing mental contrasting? "From where you are standing, work hard and you will get where you want to be" is a bit long, but seems like a good idea to me.

Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 29 April 2013 07:01:55PM *  7 points [-]

"From where you are standing, work hard and you will get where you want to be"

For a rationalist? It's an empirical claim that might be false. That's bad luck.