Create situations where my future self will be motivated to do the right thing.
Motivated by what? The details may be important.
The easiest way is to create motivation by fear—there are some ways to make the future worse for you if you don’t do X, for example betting a lot of money, making a public precommitment—but I guess this has some bad side effects.
I declare my future self to be another person who I wish to bend to my will.
“bending to ones will” is unprofessional and might cause “retaliation” (e.g. breaking out of the pattern).
You can better better influence your future self by giving yourself an environment where you want to do and enjoy the things.
The classical example to support a long-term bond is by making shared investments e.g. a house. You can motivate your future self to stay in a long-term relationship by building a large shared base.
This will give you additional montivation to keep it and the relationship (works the other way around too probably).
The precommitments work best if you are know to hold your word and there are many who nail you to it.
But the literal meaning of the commitment allows for interpretation on both sides and can cause side effects indeed.
I try to motivate my future self via long-term development and shared investments.
I declare my future self to be another person who I wish to bend to my will.
That has always been my aproach: Create situations where my future self will be motivated to do the right thing. Seems to work as far as I can tell.
Motivated by what? The details may be important.
The easiest way is to create motivation by fear—there are some ways to make the future worse for you if you don’t do X, for example betting a lot of money, making a public precommitment—but I guess this has some bad side effects.
“bending to ones will” is unprofessional and might cause “retaliation” (e.g. breaking out of the pattern).
You can better better influence your future self by giving yourself an environment where you want to do and enjoy the things.
The classical example to support a long-term bond is by making shared investments e.g. a house. You can motivate your future self to stay in a long-term relationship by building a large shared base. This will give you additional montivation to keep it and the relationship (works the other way around too probably).
The precommitments work best if you are know to hold your word and there are many who nail you to it. But the literal meaning of the commitment allows for interpretation on both sides and can cause side effects indeed.
I try to motivate my future self via long-term development and shared investments.