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Elo comments on Goal setting journal (November) - Less Wrong Discussion

2 Post author: Clarity 20 November 2015 07:54AM

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Comment author: Elo 23 November 2015 10:00:42AM 0 points [-]

have you tried ordering your to-do list by the length of time it takes to complete things?

Comment author: Clarity 24 November 2015 03:22:43AM 0 points [-]

nope, can't be bothered. Seems unnecessary

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 25 November 2015 01:35:27PM 0 points [-]

A rough ordering by amount of time needed is actually very important. I'm not saying you need to be accurate within 10%, but having some idea of what's likely to take minutes, an hour, a lot of hours, weeks, or months is the only way you can tell whether you're likely to achieve a goal-- or make progress toward it--- in a given chunk of time.

Comment author: Clarity 28 November 2015 02:33:08AM *  1 point [-]

I'll give it a try. I have updated my original post.