Ask HN: Commonly mentioned, but: what tips do you have for learning discipline?

Re:Ask HN: Commonly mentioned, but: what tips do you have fo... by gshdg on Sunday December 08, 2019 @12:40PM (#21737045)

Develop habits. They tend to work much better than relying on willpower. Especially when you’re feeling down or less energetic or inspired.

As mentioned elsewhere, start with the tiniest, lowest-willpower possible variant of your habit. Once you’ve been doing it for 3-4 weeks, you can increase the scope or ambition of the habit. Do that for another 3-4 weeks, iterate ad infinitum.

For managing scope creep, develop systems or processes for deciding what to work on. Make a habit of working only on things bubbled up by the system.

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Re:Ask HN: Commonly mentioned, but: what tips do you have fo... by dhruvkar on Monday December 09, 2019 @09:51AM (#21743086)

That last bit is interesting.

How do you design a system for bubbling up relevant habits to ingrain (or increasing scope to established habits)?

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Re:Ask HN: Commonly mentioned, but: what tips do you have fo... by gshdg on Tuesday December 10, 2019 @12:03AM (#21749747)

Oh, wow, you took that in a direction I didn’t expect. I meant that you might benefit from a system to manage scope on the projects you mentioned struggling with scope creep on.

But applying that to the development of habits themselves too is a really interesting idea. I’d never thought of that before and am not sure how you’d approach it.

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