Mini Blog Post 19: On systems - Living a life of zero willpower — Neel Nanda

On the mindset of “thinking in systems” as a way to solve personal problems, and structuring my life so I do the right things with the minimal use of willpower.

Mini Blog Post 19: On systems - Living a life of zero willpower Jun 28 Written By Neel Nanda (This post is about the mindset of thinking in systems and routines. This post is mostly from my perspective, but the technique is pretty subjective. I’ve written up a lesson plan aimed more at teaching the tools for how to find systems for your problems) Introduction This is a post about systems and willpower . Willpower is a pretty fuzzy concept, for the purposes of this post I will define it as “that which is expended when I get myself to do something that isn’t the default action”. I find thinking

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