WalterL comments on The barriers to the task - Less Wrong

-7 Post author: Elo 18 August 2016 07:22AM

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Comment author: WalterL 18 August 2016 03:59:00PM 0 points [-]

Thanks for this post man. Good advice.

Comment author: Elo 20 August 2016 04:36:22PM -2 points [-]

I am curious as to whether you have tried the exercise (which is information if yes or if no). And if not - what kind of reasoning you could be used on yourself to convince you to actually try to do the exercise and reap the benefits of the result. (I don't mean to complain at you, or to accuse you at all, I am wondering about how to convince people to take action not just talk about taking action)

Comment author: WalterL 20 August 2016 08:59:10PM 0 points [-]

Yeah, I've tried to exercise as part of my weight loss strategy. Jogging, in particular, has been clutch. Putting out the stuff I was going to need the night before, not scheduling anything for running time...all the usual stuff was essential in pulling it off.

Comment author: Elo 20 August 2016 10:33:50PM -2 points [-]

Just to be clear:

You tried to jog but found barriers and this description of barrier-breakdown system is what you did to solve it previously?

Or

you wanted to jog and couldn't work out why it isn't working and used this system to go through the problem and sort it out?

Or

you borrowed from the object level examples and solved your problems like that?

Or

This object-level example was exactly your problem and you solved it yourself but that is a good outline of the solution.