One way to keep the “Delay” high is to not have an external deadline or not commit to your own deadline. This is a real killer for me: without a proper deadline tasks are always too early or too late. When I’m “too early”, the task can be started but doesn’t get anywhere. Then, when I feel it’s “too late”, low expectations take over. Up till now I’ve used to think that the arbitrariness of setting your own deadline kills it (since it’s arbitrary, it can be reset on a whim). Now I see that thinking carefully about a deadline can reduce the arbitrariness.
helm
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I have been working with decoherence in experimental physics. It confuses me that you want to use it as a synonym for the Many-Worlds theory.
Interesting, I was mostly affected by the inertia aspect, which in turn spoiled my mood (from the inability to get anything done).
Slight exaggeration, of course. I know that by 14 my ideas were very mature, of the type “humans invented gods to explain the mysteries of the world” or “A conscious mind will likely find the thought of nonexistence abhorrent, thus the idea of eternal life”.
But I might be wrong about what this forum is about! I haven’t lurked very much.
Hello. I’m helm and I come from LW’s “parent”, reddit. I’m a rationalist by birth, although I grew up in a nondenominational Christian family.
Optimism/Pessimism seems to operate on a pretty linear scale. I was very optimistic about my own future until I hit my early 20s, now after a few bouts of depression I regularly underperform. (to generalize from one example, I know I have a hard time believing some people can be depressed and productive at the same time)
What I can say with reasonable certainty is that liberals and conservatives build up different associations, retain different facts, etc, etc, which would make a temporary switch more difficult.
Then induce a penalty for not trying.