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Re:Show HN: A simple way to set goals you actually follow by toyg on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @04:30AM (#24625318)
This thing where you are supposed to take satisfaction from looking at a "chain" of repeated tasks on your calendar and feeling so bad for "breaking" the streak that you'll keep doing it. There are quite a few out there.

The effect on me is typically to increase my self-loathing when inevitably the chain breaks, and the feeling of "oh no, doing it all again will take so long!" discourages from picking myself up.

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Re:Show HN: A simple way to set goals you actually follow by PaulKeeble on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @06:19AM (#24625905)
Chains don't really work the moment they get broken. Instead the alternate view that habits take about a month to form at least and you can only really change about 1% of a day every month is a better system that allows gaps and adjustments and systems built around our errors and unreliability and rewarding that long term habit building without the chain effect are a lot more effective long term.
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