I appreciate your thinking here, but I’m worried that this is just going to turn into a thread where people list random songs they like. I mean, if “a cool love song” qualifies...
Great point, and a concern. At least for me, these songs are very particular. I have about 5000 songs in my collection, and about 300 made it into this list. Distinguishing this kind of song was something I found time-intensive, and there are many songs I enjoyed but that didn’t actually make me motivated to go do things. My hope is that these particular songs are likely to be helpful—I think my past self would have really been helped by having something like this.
If emotional responses to songs are substantially personal in nature, it might be more interesting to discuss what mix of emotions most helps motivation, so everyone can solve their own optimization problem.
That’s an excellent point. For me, the emotions can be either good or bad, but the critical thing is that the song is about a good thing I plan to increase or a bad thing I plan to decrease, that I am fully able to make that change, and that the song is not about looking impressive.
One of the main reasons I didn’t include many songs is that I don’t expect them to have this kind of association for others, though they do for me. And I expect other people to find songs that work for them but not for me. The only thing that really matters is that it works for you.
Great point, and a concern. At least for me, these songs are very particular. I have about 5000 songs in my collection, and about 300 made it into this list. Distinguishing this kind of song was something I found time-intensive, and there are many songs I enjoyed but that didn’t actually make me motivated to go do things. My hope is that these particular songs are likely to be helpful—I think my past self would have really been helped by having something like this.
That’s an excellent point. For me, the emotions can be either good or bad, but the critical thing is that the song is about a good thing I plan to increase or a bad thing I plan to decrease, that I am fully able to make that change, and that the song is not about looking impressive.
One of the main reasons I didn’t include many songs is that I don’t expect them to have this kind of association for others, though they do for me. And I expect other people to find songs that work for them but not for me. The only thing that really matters is that it works for you.