Some feature on https://www.clearerthinking.org helped me a lot with that, by basically asking me to think of a large number of viscerally desirable things that will come as a result of finishing the thing I am doing now (crap like “head pats from peers”, and “get an office”). I guess I’d lost sight of a lot of it. The reasons I was giving myself to continue weren’t really the kinds of things that directly motivate humans.
I don’t know if that feature is still there. I felt like I stumbled into it, like I was just having a conversation with the site and that’s where we ended up.
Some feature on https://www.clearerthinking.org helped me a lot with that, by basically asking me to think of a large number of viscerally desirable things that will come as a result of finishing the thing I am doing now (crap like “head pats from peers”, and “get an office”). I guess I’d lost sight of a lot of it. The reasons I was giving myself to continue weren’t really the kinds of things that directly motivate humans.
I don’t know if that feature is still there. I felt like I stumbled into it, like I was just having a conversation with the site and that’s where we ended up.