Reading Less Wrong is consumptive, not productive. You need to have something to show for your work, ex. a novel draft, a fitter body, a cleaner house.
Isn’t easy/hard the more useful distinction than consumptive/productive? After all, reading the news is productive in the sense of having something to show for it, because you will seem more informed in conversation. And working out can be a form of consumption, if you buy a gym membership.
Personally, I’ve always loved working out. So I don’t have much to gain by trying to motivate myself to work out even more, because I’m obviously already very fit. And “forcing” myself to work out isn’t going to test my self-discipline either. If I’m going to put in 40 hours of scheduled “work” next week, then at least some of it should be spent on things I find hard, and therefore don’t do often enough.
Similarly, if reading geeky blog articles is what you do for fun, CAE_Jones, (which seems probable since you’re here) it’s unlikely that reading even more geeky blog articles will improve your life. That said, you might want to start off scheduling things you would expect yourself to do anyway, for the same reason that you might want to start off scheduling less that 40 hours a week, and slowly work your way up. Just to ease into it.
Isn’t easy/hard the more useful distinction than consumptive/productive? After all, reading the news is productive in the sense of having something to show for it, because you will seem more informed in conversation. And working out can be a form of consumption, if you buy a gym membership.
Personally, I’ve always loved working out. So I don’t have much to gain by trying to motivate myself to work out even more, because I’m obviously already very fit. And “forcing” myself to work out isn’t going to test my self-discipline either. If I’m going to put in 40 hours of scheduled “work” next week, then at least some of it should be spent on things I find hard, and therefore don’t do often enough.
Similarly, if reading geeky blog articles is what you do for fun, CAE_Jones, (which seems probable since you’re here) it’s unlikely that reading even more geeky blog articles will improve your life. That said, you might want to start off scheduling things you would expect yourself to do anyway, for the same reason that you might want to start off scheduling less that 40 hours a week, and slowly work your way up. Just to ease into it.
Yeah that’s a better way of putting it. Reading Less Wrong might be work for some people, but it’s not for me it probably isn’t for CAE_Jones.