By: clipart
Why do we have this problem? The technical answer is time inconsistency and is illustrated nicely in a study on grocery-buying habits:
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Two great points here! (Note that most of the comments are on the original version of this article.) Quick responses: We highly recommend not just letting a weight loss goal finish but having the...
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Be careful when you are about to reach your goals. I was on a strict bodybuilding diet. I made the photoshooting. When having reached the goal you set your self once it can creat a void and let you...
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Thanks Bev! You should add this to the comments on the original version of this article — http://messymatters.com/akrasia — where all the other comments are.
View ArticleBy: Bev Wenger-Trayner
Interesting is the idea of “Immunity to change” by Robert Keegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey. They would say that if you’re not “akrasia-ing” it’s because you have a good reason not to. And it’s only when...
View ArticleBy: Beeminder – Helping You Achieve Your Goals | Michael Williams' Blog
[...] feedback combined with self-binding help to keep you on the road to achieving whatever it is you set out [...]
View ArticleBy: The Magical Widening Yellow Brick Road | Beeminder Blog
[...] discrepancy between what you want to do now vs later is called akrasia. As we explained in the inaugural article for this blog, akrasia is fundamentally a problem of overweighting immediate...
View ArticleBy: Force Majeure, Or Beeminder’s SOS Clause | Beeminder Blog
[...] if you actually wanted to know that then you should check out the Further Reading section of the inaugural post on this blog which we’re continuing to update, such as with the 1955 paper by...
View ArticleBy: Akratics Anonymous | Beeminder Blog
[...] In a word, akratics. An akratic is someone who suffers from akrasia, which we wrote about in the inaugural post of this blog. (There’s also a definition in the [...]
View ArticleBy: Unintended Consequences | Beeminder Blog
[...] is that immediate consequences (like the deliciousness of the pie in front of you) act like a drug that distorts your decision-making. Despite my use of the “multiple selves” rhetoric, there’s...
View ArticleBy: What Happens When You Don’t Report Your Weight; or, Driving Blind |...
[...] scale, Withings.com. We’ll be offering it at a discount to a limited number of beta users who commit to a Beeminder yellow brick road. If you want in, use the invite code FANCYSCALE when you get...
View ArticleBy: Productivity Hack: The Sedimentary Filing System | Beeminder Blog
[...] sounds, prima facie, at odds with the Beeminder philosophy. But in fact I don’t dispute that it’s downright terrible to have to self-commit like [...]
View ArticleBy: To Buy or Not To Buy a Gym Membership | Beeminder Blog
[...] Our article on akrasia and the philosophy behind this kind of commitment contract: How to Do What You Want. [...]
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