Comment by acessoproibido
4 hours ago
You can change your personality at any point in time, you don't even need psychedelics for it, just some good old fashioned habits
As long as you are still drawing breath it's never too late bud
4 hours ago
You can change your personality at any point in time, you don't even need psychedelics for it, just some good old fashioned habits
As long as you are still drawing breath it's never too late bud
But that's what I mean. I'm pretty much clinically incapable of intentionally forming and maintaining habits. And I have a sinking feeling that it's something you either win or lose at in the genetic lottery at time of conception, or at best something you can develop in early life. That's what I meant by "being past my pre-training phase and being stuck with poor prompt adherence".
You appear to have successfully formed the habit of posting on Hacker News frequently, isn't this a starting place? :)
I can relate. It's definitely possible, but you have to really want it, and it takes a lot of work.
You need cybernetics (as in the feedback loop, the habit that monitors the process of adding habits). Meditate and/or journal. Therapy is also great. There are tracking apps that may help. Some folks really like habitica/habit rpg.
You also need operant conditioning: you need a stimulus/trigger, and you need a reward. Could be as simple as letting yourself have a piece of candy.
Anything that enhances neuroplasticity helps: exercise, learning, eat/sleep right, novelty, adhd meds if that's something you need, psychedelics can help if used carefully.
I'm hardly any good at it myself but it's been some progress.
Right. I know about all these things (but thanks for listing them!) as I've been struggling with it for nearly two decades, with little progress to show.
I keep gravitating to the term, "prompt adherence", because it feels like it describes the root meta-problem I have: I can set up a system, but I can't seem to get myself to follow it for more than a few days - including especially a system to set up and maintain systems. I feel that if I could crack that, set up this "habit that monitors the process of adding habits" and actually stick to it long-term, I could brute-force my way out of every other problem.
Alas.
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