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malcolmocean comments on Group Rationality Diary, Dec. 1-13, 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: malcolmocean 05 December 2015 10:01:22PM 3 points [-]

I was having a kind of unmotivated day yesterday, and eventually I tried doing an experiment where instead of trying to plan out a bunch of things to do, I just picked one thing, deliberately chosen to not be a super important thing, just a thing I vaguely felt like doing (adding a long-press menu to my app Complice). This led into me doing other useful things, and my day was somewhat recovered :)

Comment author: Tem42 06 December 2015 03:50:39PM 0 points [-]

I have found that it is also useful to pick two things to do, and chose one of them. You will naturally be more motivated to do the easier thing, and that will make it easier to start.