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Make Appointments with Yourself

Make Appointments with Yourself

Behavioral economists have shown that making good choices is easy if you don’t have to act on them now. Hyperbolic discounting — the tendency to overvalue rewards now and undervalue them later.

Be faithful to your calendar; if it says I'm supposed to do something, I tend to do it. So, I look ahead to uncommitted blocks of time and plug in a commitment to focus on a particular task.

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