I am compelled to express my disappointment that this comment was not posted more prominently.
Habit formation is important and underrated, and I see a lot of triumphant claims from a lot of people but I don’t actually see a lot of results that persuade me to change my habituation procedure. I myself have some successful years-old habits and I got them by a different process than what you’ve described. In particular, I skip twice all the time and it doesn’t kill my longterm momentum.
And I hope you’ll forgive the harshness if I harken back to point #4 of this comment.
Yeah seems fair. I’ve thought about writing it into the essay and been uncertain how to do so. It’s been 6-7 years and I’ve had on my list to write a new version of this post, and distill out my new life lessons now that I’ve had twice-as-long a time horizon.
(Note: The habits listed in this essay had lasted years, at the time I wrote the essay. I think they failed most concretely during the pandemic, and then subsequently moving to different houses)
I am compelled to express my disappointment that this comment was not posted more prominently.
Habit formation is important and underrated, and I see a lot of triumphant claims from a lot of people but I don’t actually see a lot of results that persuade me to change my habituation procedure. I myself have some successful years-old habits and I got them by a different process than what you’ve described. In particular, I skip twice all the time and it doesn’t kill my longterm momentum.
And I hope you’ll forgive the harshness if I harken back to point #4 of this comment.
Yeah seems fair. I’ve thought about writing it into the essay and been uncertain how to do so. It’s been 6-7 years and I’ve had on my list to write a new version of this post, and distill out my new life lessons now that I’ve had twice-as-long a time horizon.
(Note: The habits listed in this essay had lasted years, at the time I wrote the essay. I think they failed most concretely during the pandemic, and then subsequently moving to different houses)