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Up until today, Hammertime focused on improving one’s ability to achieve one’s goals. The next two techniques, Goal Factoring and Internal Double Crux, are designed to figure out what goals to pursue. For the largest goals in life, you should be able to make a detached decision about whether they’re worth pursuing before you throw your all into them. Previously: Day 7, Aversion Factoring. Goal Factoring is a CFAR technique for systematically figuring out all the subgoals and aversions you have around an action, and what to do about them. The basic algorithm: This is already quite a complicated and useful beast. Three things to keep in mind: Use a focusing check to find all the subgoals and aversions. If I say out loud, “The only reason I want to go to the gym is physical health,” I feel a curtain of discontent that reminds me physical attractiveness is also important. Remember that honesty and attention to detail are essential to finding aversions, and this applies to goals as well! Go

x Goal Factoring — LessWrong Hammertime Goal Factoring Exercises / Problem-Sets Frontpage 27 Goal Factoring by alkjash 26th Feb 2018 Radimentary 2 min read 4 27 This is part 18 of 30 of Hammertime. Click here for the intro. Up until today, Hammertime focused on improving one’s ability to achieve one’s goals. The next two techniques, Goal Factoring and Internal Double Crux, are designed to figure out what goals to pursue. For the largest goals in life, you should be able to make a detached decision about whether they’re worth pursuing before you throw your all into them. Day 18: Goal Factoring

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