Nanashi comments on How my social skills went from horrible to mediocre - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Nanashi 29 May 2015 03:07:35PM 1 point [-]

I go into this in further detail in this post

Defining the success conditions is a critical first step, and you'd be surprised at how many people don't do that. Many people frame their goals as a state-of-being, e.g. "I want to be the fastest runner in the world" rather than a success-condition, e.g. "I want to beat the current world record holder."