I now plan to split up long boring tasks into short tasks with a little celebration of completion as the reward after each one. I actually decided to try this after reading Don’t Shoot the Dog, which I think I saw recommended on Less Wrong. It’s got me a somewhat more productive weekend. If it does stop helping, I suspect it would be from the reward stopping being fun.
I now plan to split up long boring tasks into short tasks with a little celebration of completion as the reward after each one. I actually decided to try this after reading Don’t Shoot the Dog, which I think I saw recommended on Less Wrong. It’s got me a somewhat more productive weekend. If it does stop helping, I suspect it would be from the reward stopping being fun.