As the body uses glucose during self-control, it starts to crave sweet things to eat (BaumeisterTierney 2011, “Willpower”, p. 51).
23 labs attempted to replicate (pre-registered) and found “the size of the ego-depletion effect was small with 95% confidence intervals (CIs) that encompassed zero” (HaggerEtal 2016)
three innate needs (DeciRyan 2000)
\(motivation = \frac{expectancy \times value }{impulsiveness \times delay}\)
(Steel 2011, “The procrastination equation”)
What’s the motivation for college?
Are the following big or small?
cue (to trigger the brain); routine (to make it automatic); reward (to establish those routines)
Think of a reasonable goal for the next year, and specify:
Yet the well-being indicators [Winter] assiduously tracks had been high: his average happiness was 7.03/10 (“awesome!”), his energy was 6.64 (“high for me”), and his health was 5.33 (“5 is ‘okay’”). (Reagle 2019, ch. 4)
[Winter] conceded that doing work was his “natural state, so adding Beeminders for everything else is what I do to avoid doing too much work and not getting balance … it’s dangerous to focus only on, say, work productivity, because you can definitely make yourself into a work monster.” (Reagle 2019, ch. 4)
Guru Analysis: Angela Lee Duckworth
values, moment, & assumptions; authority, relatability, & tropes?
Specify your criteria for answering: How far is too far?
