The Ten Percent Shift is a thought experiment I’ve successfully pushed to System 1 that helps build long-term habits like blogging every day. It makes the assumption that each time you make a choice, it gets 10% easier.
I’m wary of baking the number into this term, since the number is almost certainly wrong (but the basic idea seems roughly true). I’d contrast it, though, with a counter-problem (see “Superhuman by Habit” or “Sunset at Noon”) that not going the gym also count as a habit that makes not-going-to-the-gym 10% easier. (But, formalizing this precisely gets pretty hairy)
I’m wary of baking the number into this term, since the number is almost certainly wrong (but the basic idea seems roughly true). I’d contrast it, though, with a counter-problem (see “Superhuman by Habit” or “Sunset at Noon”) that not going the gym also count as a habit that makes not-going-to-the-gym 10% easier. (But, formalizing this precisely gets pretty hairy)