What top 3 attributes of a task (as opposed to your mood/personality) motivate you the most to get started? Eg: length, upside, skill needed
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the answers to your question are quite hilarious. Respondents actually think that their motivations are ordered, legible & conscious.
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Maybe they are to some...I find big diffs in levels of empirically grounded self-awareness
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lack of familiarity with some aspects of the problem domain, number of problems it solves, potential for lulz
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basically all those jokes that end with the mathematician setting the trash can on fire to reduce it to a solved problem are true
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1. low activation energy 2. expectation that people will laugh/enjoy it 3. potential long-term benefit (eg for a carpentry project)
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1) am I convinced it really needs doing
2) is it the last minute
3) is there no clever way to rationalize deferring it
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1. In the difficulty sweetspot 2. Possibility of elegant solution 3. Braggability.
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1 - it feels like it would be fun to do in that moment.
2 - I am under time pressure.
3 - Seems like it could lead to future reward.
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