This is huge if it works; you’re basically able to reprogram your entire life.
I haven’t gotten it to work yet, this post makes it look like it’s not that hard to set up. In my case at least, it will probably require multiple days to set the trigger. Probably worth many hours of effort to set a trigger for “stop and think about what I should be thinking about”, but I’ve heard at least one other person having a hard time setting the trigger such that it would go off.
I, at least, was led to think by this post that it would less effort than actually required, and on that front it was unhelpful (though this risk was accounted for by the “adjust your seat” section of a preceeding chapter).
I still consider this to be a very helpful thing to share with people and near the top of my sharing list due to the value of its model alone, and like tuning your cognitive strategies the potential is massive, but for a 15 minute post, it would have been nice if it warned me that I would have to see how long it takes to set a trigger in order to decide what kinds of things I set triggers for.
If it takes off, I’ll personally promote this post enough among high-value people, more than enough to compensate for giving it a so-so review here.
This is huge if it works; you’re basically able to reprogram your entire life.
I haven’t gotten it to work yet, this post makes it look like it’s not that hard to set up. In my case at least, it will probably require multiple days to set the trigger. Probably worth many hours of effort to set a trigger for “stop and think about what I should be thinking about”, but I’ve heard at least one other person having a hard time setting the trigger such that it would go off.
I, at least, was led to think by this post that it would less effort than actually required, and on that front it was unhelpful (though this risk was accounted for by the “adjust your seat” section of a preceeding chapter).
I still consider this to be a very helpful thing to share with people and near the top of my sharing list due to the value of its model alone, and like tuning your cognitive strategies the potential is massive, but for a 15 minute post, it would have been nice if it warned me that I would have to see how long it takes to set a trigger in order to decide what kinds of things I set triggers for.
If it takes off, I’ll personally promote this post enough among high-value people, more than enough to compensate for giving it a so-so review here.
implementation intentions are an externally studied idea, renamed to “trigger action plans” in this subcommunity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implementation_intention