vali comments on What makes you different from Tim Ferriss? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: vali 21 June 2013 04:28:21AM 5 points [-]

I used to think that making failure more costly might be a good source of motivation as well. I ended up failing out of college and spending several months in a haze of depression and total apathy about life.

I'm doing a lot better now, but I've learned my lesson, and no longer use negative incentives as sources of motivation. For a person of my mindset, there is no such thing as "failure so costly one can't help but succeed."

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 21 June 2013 09:39:30AM 3 points [-]

Using "make failure so costly you can't help but succeed" sounds like an approach where good results would have a stronger than average survival effect.