Yes, But I can’t exactly recommend my approach. I wrote it up here
What I’d recommend instead is to wire a different motivation you do naturally have to exercise. E.g.:
hanging out with that one athletic friend
numbers go up reward on whatever exercise feels most rewarding
learn to do something physically demanding that you will enjoy once you get there, like acrobatics or building a shed in your backyard by hand
create games or events that involve exercise
Or, you know, try to unlock the reward signal like I did for running. I have no clue how reproducible that is though.
Good luck! ❤️
I think roughly parenting advice tends to miss three points:
accounting for wide variance in resource constraints of the parent
accounting for the wide variance in skills of the parent and differentials in costs of various parenting strategies per parent
accounting for the variance in child personalities and needs
I think you basically touch on all three. I think the issue as an ‘outsider’ is that some people have experiences with negligent parenting and overfit on other people thus also being negligent parents instead of how much the above three factors play into things. I think parenting advice is in principle valuable to increase parenting outcomes but the pool of advice is heavily polluted by people skipping one of more of the above three considerations, and this is honestly kind of infuriating as a parent who is Actually Trying, like many of us are ❤️
But then again, a lot of parenting advice and views are really just meant as a ‘have you considered X for your specific situation?’ And I think this is good and high value and should be encouraged cause better parenting outcomes are really valuable for our society and just super cool thing for everyone involved ❤️