Andy_McKenzie comments on 2015 New Years Resolution Thread - Less Wrong

4 Post author: Andy_McKenzie 24 December 2014 10:16PM

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Comment author: Andy_McKenzie 25 December 2014 02:32:56PM 6 points [-]

I was thinking of social support of other people's goals.

Comment author: peter_hurford 25 December 2014 05:09:38PM 2 points [-]

Strictly speaking, is there any advantage for people who want to improve themselves to coordinate their efforts to start on the same day?

Not really, but there's an advantage to having one particular day on which to do things, to avoid the "I'll do it someday" problem.

Comment author: brazil84 26 December 2014 04:08:52PM 2 points [-]

Not really, but there's an advantage to having one particular day on which to do things, to avoid the "I'll do it someday" problem.

I think that's probably true, although I think it's along the lines of what I mentioned earlier -- a kind of internal Schelling Point.

There's also the problem that it might create another kind of "I'll do it someday" problem. For example, a person might pig out on Thanksgiving and Christmas and justify it to himself saying "Starting January 1 I will eat healthy and hit the gym every day."

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