I also know that I should arrange my diet to have more fruits and vegetables than it currently does. However, after a few decades of doing things one way which isn’t optimal, but is good enough to get the job done, simply “deciding” to do things a different way isn’t enough to alter all the various unconscious mental sub-units whose interactions lead to the behaviour in question.
I bought a pumpkin pie yesterday instead of a box of cookies. I’ve started using beta-readers. Neither one is a perfect solution—but each is a single-step improvement over the previous situation, a step that is within the range of behaviours I can get my unconscious processes to actually accomplish, and hopefully, isn’t going to be the only step.
While I won’t claim that my writing is very good I think I learned to handle the issue of writing sentences that are too long. It just takes a decision to allocate some time to reviewing your own writing and then looking at every sentence.
I don’t do that for everyone of my LW posts, but if I would write a blog or fiction I would.
I also know that I should arrange my diet to have more fruits and vegetables than it currently does. However, after a few decades of doing things one way which isn’t optimal, but is good enough to get the job done, simply “deciding” to do things a different way isn’t enough to alter all the various unconscious mental sub-units whose interactions lead to the behaviour in question.
I bought a pumpkin pie yesterday instead of a box of cookies. I’ve started using beta-readers. Neither one is a perfect solution—but each is a single-step improvement over the previous situation, a step that is within the range of behaviours I can get my unconscious processes to actually accomplish, and hopefully, isn’t going to be the only step.
While I won’t claim that my writing is very good I think I learned to handle the issue of writing sentences that are too long. It just takes a decision to allocate some time to reviewing your own writing and then looking at every sentence.
I don’t do that for everyone of my LW posts, but if I would write a blog or fiction I would.