Willpower Hax #487: Execute by Default

Eliezer Yudkowskylesswrong.comWritten 2 min read

Yudkowsky shares his trick for getting out of bed by counting down from ten, which turns an effortful decision into a default plan that runs on its own, while warning it's shallow advice without deep theory behind it.

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