ephion comments on Request for Advice: Unschool or High School? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ephion 10 September 2013 04:15:51PM 4 points [-]

leave at 3:15 PM. From there, I go to cross country, taking my time until 6:00 PM at the earliest.

Did I mention I have a serious akrasia problem?

I would look at these two things before considering dropping high school entirely. If you don't intend on cross country having a positive effect on your college admissions, then you can exercise in a much more time efficient manner than 12.5hr/week long distance running. Your akrasia problem is not likely to disappear with increased free time and decreased structure.

Comment author: Viliam_Bur 14 September 2013 09:03:00PM 3 points [-]

Your akrasia problem is not likely to disappear with increased free time and decreased structure.

This. Sometimes I do less when I have more free time, perhaps because the duties I have at least wake me up and set me in the motion.

Comment author: [deleted] 14 September 2013 10:56:11PM 0 points [-]

Me too (though the effect is no longer as strong as it was when I didn't use Beeminder and LeechBlock).

Comment author: CAE_Jones 14 September 2013 09:20:54PM 0 points [-]

Same here, if another datapoint helps. I've been out of school for almost two years now, and don't feel like this has helped (it may or may not have hurt; I'm not convinced I'm calibrated well enough to say for sure).