Ask HN: How do you manage your life: set goals, plan, manage time, etc.?

Re:Ask HN: How do you manage your life: set goals, plan, man... by kleer001 on Sunday February 21, 2021 @03:52PM (#26217066)

To answer the question behind your question. I think what you're looking for is a way to increase one's personality trait conscientiousness.

It's not easy.

Here's some pointers :

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/finding-new-home/201...

https://einzelganger.co/how-to-increase-conscientiousness/

There's likely more out there, obviously.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you manage your life: set goals, plan, man... by ilia_lotov on Sunday February 21, 2021 @04:15PM (#26217277)

Conscientiousness is one of the traits, but it is not the only trait important in the process of life planning in my view. I started to think about this topic after re-reading PG's The Anatomy of Determination essay and Sam Altman's Productivity article. http://www.paulgraham.com/determination.html?viewfullsite=1 https://blog.samaltman.com/productivity

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Re:Ask HN: How do you manage your life: set goals, plan, man... by kleer001 on Sunday February 21, 2021 @07:25PM (#26218877)

That essay you point to doesn't mention conscientiousness or even the big five personality traits.

Of the Big Five personality traits Conscientiousness is the only one strongly predictive of life success. It's the difference between starting a project and petering out or finishing it. It's the difference between self destructive behaviour and grit.

https://medium.com/@bryanye/how-conscientiousness-can-predic...

https://www.beyondinsurance.com/blog/conscientiousness-key-p...

https://www.headstuff.org/topical/science/practical-psycholo...

https://www.utoronto.ca/news/being-conscientious-one-stronge...

https://phys.org/news/2019-11-conscientious-strongest-predic...

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