Early Retirement May Speed Up Cognitive Decline: Study

Re:Early Retirement May Speed Up Cognitive Decline: Study by ImaCake on Thursday October 31, 2019 @03:56AM (#21406544)

Being self-motivated is actually incredibly difficult. Just ask any PhD student who has hands-off supervisors. Learning to chase your own goals independently is a skill you have to cultivate. You need to learn your weaknesses, what tricks you can employ to get working, and what you actually care about enough to achieve.

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Re:Early Retirement May Speed Up Cognitive Decline: Study by arvinsim on Thursday October 31, 2019 @06:49AM (#21407389)

Yup. You can get all the time you want, buy all the equipment you need and even then, you sometimes feel like just watching Youtube.

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Re:Early Retirement May Speed Up Cognitive Decline: Study by toomuchtodo on Thursday October 31, 2019 @11:17AM (#21409702)

Do you think there's demand for a motivation as a service non-profit?

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Re:Early Retirement May Speed Up Cognitive Decline: Study by ImaCake on Friday November 01, 2019 @02:19AM (#21416613)

Hmmm there is a market for self-motivation advice to PhD students but they aren't exactly a wealthy audience, and atleast some of it is purchased by education institutions rather than individuals. Beyond that, there are plenty of motivation oriented smart phone apps and etc. And there is 80,000 hours who sometimes take that as their purview.

https://80000hours.org/

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