How to Become a ‘Superager’

Re:How to Become a ‘Superager’ by omegaworks on Saturday December 31, 2016 @09:00PM (#13294308)

Good habits should feel good. Strange that we've evolved the opposite physiological response.

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Re:How to Become a ‘Superager’ by austinsharp on Saturday December 31, 2016 @09:06PM (#13294328)

Good habits tend to feel good afterward. Bad habits feel good now. I find that thinking of my future self as a separate person that I can do nice things for helps me feel the long term benefits more.

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Re:How to Become a ‘Superager’ by nhylated on Saturday December 31, 2016 @09:16PM (#13294360)

>> I find that thinking of my future self as a separate person that I can do nice things for helps me feel the long term benefits more.

Related: check this comment on reddit: https://reddit.com/r/getdisciplined/comments/1q96b5/i_just_d...

That comment inspired a new subreddit which is quite popular now: https://reddit.com/r/nonzeroday/about

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Re:How to Become a ‘Superager’ by redwyvern on Saturday December 31, 2016 @09:16PM (#13294361)

Long term thinking is often the best way to improve our lives

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Re:How to Become a ‘Superager’ by Swizec on Saturday December 31, 2016 @09:21PM (#13294376)

We didn't. Good habits still feel good.

I feel much better when working out than when lounging on a couch watching TV. The first feels lively and fun, the second makes me fidgety and annoyed.

Eating well gives me energy and lifts my spirits, eating crap makes me lethargic and bleurch.

The problem is that initial activation energy. It's easier to sit down than to put on workout clothes. Easier to grab a piece of chocolate than to cook a meal.

There are little tricks you can use to make the good habits easier and the bad habits hard. For instance, you'd have to go to a grocery store to get crap food if you craved it in my apartment. And TV watching happens only on a 13" laptop with bad speakers.

Little things go a long way.

Now I just gotta figure out how to make books easier than internet.

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Re:How to Become a ‘Superager’ by justinclift on Sunday January 01, 2017 @11:15AM (#13296146)

> Now I just gotta figure out how to make books easier than internet.

Get an outdated tablet that's WAAAAY too insecure for connecting to the internet (eg original Wifi iPad, set to airplane mode), and fill it with PDFs/epubs/etc of your choice.

Then, instead of jumping on the computer all the time, pull out the iPad somewhere away from the computer and read. eg in bed, outside on a balcony, etc

Doing exactly this works well for me, original iPad and everything. Theres No Way I'm going browse the web with that and get distracted, and I have all of the books I want with no buildup of useless physical book material. :D

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Re:How to Become a ‘Superager’ by nitrogen on Sunday January 01, 2017 @12:28AM (#13294796)

Now I just gotta figure out how to make books easier than internet.

Keep a list of books you want to read. Buy a couple at a time. Keep your current book by your computer and/or bed. When you finish one, buy another so you always have books.

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Re:How to Become a ‘Superager’ by ceejayoz on Saturday December 31, 2016 @09:58PM (#13294488)

"Stuff yourself with as much food as possible when it's available" used to be a good habit.

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Re:How to Become a ‘Superager’ by hliyan on Sunday January 01, 2017 @03:22AM (#13295088)

Because we're no longer living in the type of environment for which we evolved.

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