I love peanut butter, so I eat as much of it as I can without getting too chubby for my own satisfaction. Am I supposed to get uncomfortably chubby so I can hide stuff in more peanut butter?
Also, I’m bad at hiding stuff from myself. Can anyone advise me on getting better at hiding things from my own self?
Which is to say, this whole give yourself a treat in trade for hard work sounds weird to me. I haven’t conceptualized it right. I can occasionally do it, but only ad-hoc when I don’t think about it too much. I can make and keep commitments to myself, but I don’t like making commitments that are trades for the above reasons.
I’m also such a rebel that even me trying to boss me around makes me want to do the opposite.
I generally watch videos I enjoy while doing physical therapy exercises. I didn’t conceptualize it as hiding the “reward” from myself as an incentive for exercising; I conceptualize it as making the rather boring, sometimes aversive activity less salient by focusing my attention on something else.
As an example, I find it much easier to hold a plank when I’m focused on the video I’m watching than when I’m just starting at the timer counting down.
Interesting. This specific form of ‘reward’ also works well for me (and I also hadn’t conceptualised it as such), but when people talk about rewarding yourself as an incentive for doing something, it’s usually stuff like ‘give yourself a slice of cake if you’ve had a productive workday’ or whatever, and in those cases, my brain is always going ‘wait! I can have the cake anyway, even though I didn’t do what I planned! It’s right here, I can just eat it!’. I’m not sure why it happens, or why watching videos when exercising works better, but I assume it’s what Seth meant?
I love peanut butter, so I eat as much of it as I can without getting too chubby for my own satisfaction. Am I supposed to get uncomfortably chubby so I can hide stuff in more peanut butter?
Also, I’m bad at hiding stuff from myself. Can anyone advise me on getting better at hiding things from my own self?
Which is to say, this whole give yourself a treat in trade for hard work sounds weird to me. I haven’t conceptualized it right. I can occasionally do it, but only ad-hoc when I don’t think about it too much. I can make and keep commitments to myself, but I don’t like making commitments that are trades for the above reasons.
I’m also such a rebel that even me trying to boss me around makes me want to do the opposite.
I generally watch videos I enjoy while doing physical therapy exercises. I didn’t conceptualize it as hiding the “reward” from myself as an incentive for exercising; I conceptualize it as making the rather boring, sometimes aversive activity less salient by focusing my attention on something else.
As an example, I find it much easier to hold a plank when I’m focused on the video I’m watching than when I’m just starting at the timer counting down.
Interesting. This specific form of ‘reward’ also works well for me (and I also hadn’t conceptualised it as such), but when people talk about rewarding yourself as an incentive for doing something, it’s usually stuff like ‘give yourself a slice of cake if you’ve had a productive workday’ or whatever, and in those cases, my brain is always going ‘wait! I can have the cake anyway, even though I didn’t do what I planned! It’s right here, I can just eat it!’. I’m not sure why it happens, or why watching videos when exercising works better, but I assume it’s what Seth meant?