Does the average person who reads a story about productivity tips automatically implement the tip because the trust it? Usually not. Usually people just read and then do nothing.
Don’t underrate the effect of telling stories in a way that get people to change their behavior.
I think it’s likely that my main challenges don’t lie with having the right evidence about which productivity technique is best but with akrasia around implementing techniques.
What do you actually mean with “trust”?
Does the average person who reads a story about productivity tips automatically implement the tip because the trust it? Usually not. Usually people just read and then do nothing.
Don’t underrate the effect of telling stories in a way that get people to change their behavior.
I think it’s likely that my main challenges don’t lie with having the right evidence about which productivity technique is best but with akrasia around implementing techniques.
With trusting stories I meant something like “we assign them a higher probability to be true than they actually have”.
Something along Kahneman’s theory that we default to believe everything we hear. That disbelieving is harder (a System 2 activity).
But akrasia is also a good point! I agree that many people already have all the information they need and just need to take action.