Habitica – A gamified habit-building and productivity app

Re:Habitica – A gamified habit-building and productivity app by war1025 on Sunday September 06, 2020 @02:52PM (#24393685)

May devolve into a troll war like it does every time, but this is really the essence of the "Systems vs Goals" [1] approach that Scott Adams (of Dilbert fame) advocates for.

[1] https://www.scottadamssays.com/2013/11/18/goals-vs-systems/

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Re:Habitica – A gamified habit-building and productivity app by throwaway123x2 on Sunday September 06, 2020 @03:20PM (#24393890)

This rang true for me. Systems are more powerful than goals.

One example I can cite is that I've always struggled to keep a diary until recently, when I finally got into a groove and did it for six months straight, not missing a day. Then my wife moved my desk, the habit died, and a week later I had missed too many days and lost the motivation to keep going.

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Re:Habitica – A gamified habit-building and productivity app by sireat on Sunday September 06, 2020 @04:15PM (#24394318)

Then again a wrong system leading to a habit that does not align with your inner heart is worse than useless.

As anecdata I had a 400+ day chain going on https://750words.com/ ( a nice single person startup btw) but once I missed a few days I felt tremendously happy.

I realized that I was not getting anywhere (my writing still stinks to high heaven) and that my goals did not match with the habit.

Life is too short to make wrong habits.

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