I’d like to make the suggestion that one shouldn’t begin productivity posts with statements about how the author is just so productive, especially if the aim is to help those who are struggling with being productive, and who have perhaps failed in the past. Statements like “I was not always productive before” are on the right track, but I would instead lead off with that narrative, and more fully develop it: Describe what it actually felt like to be unproductive. And then give the good reasons you found to begin anew, which may offer hope to people still struggling. The last thing you want to do is make the reader feel like they are in a different reference class than you, and begin to feel like your suggestions can’t apply no matter how much effort they put in.
I get this post is meant to be an introduction for beginners who maybe are learning these concepts for the first time, and there’s a difference between learning productivity and combating akrasia. I’d just like to suggest there’s a much bigger inferential gap across the webs than with your friends you’ve tried this with personally, and so perhaps it would be helpful to write more narratively than prescriptively.
I’d like to make the suggestion that one shouldn’t begin productivity posts with statements about how the author is just so productive, especially if the aim is to help those who are struggling with being productive, and who have perhaps failed in the past. Statements like “I was not always productive before” are on the right track, but I would instead lead off with that narrative, and more fully develop it: Describe what it actually felt like to be unproductive. And then give the good reasons you found to begin anew, which may offer hope to people still struggling. The last thing you want to do is make the reader feel like they are in a different reference class than you, and begin to feel like your suggestions can’t apply no matter how much effort they put in.
I get this post is meant to be an introduction for beginners who maybe are learning these concepts for the first time, and there’s a difference between learning productivity and combating akrasia. I’d just like to suggest there’s a much bigger inferential gap across the webs than with your friends you’ve tried this with personally, and so perhaps it would be helpful to write more narratively than prescriptively.