if you chain a big habit to a small habit, it may break the small habit
- an example:
- lots of Intend users have requested, over the years, to add a journalling feature to the outcomes submission process (basically an end-of-day review of what you did that day towards each goal)
- and I've refused
- because in 2012 when I was using the email-to-myself proto-system that evolved into Intend, I had tried having a few journal questions I was trying to answer as part of the reflection email
- and I found that my reflections felt rich but they would sometimes be like 20mins long
- and some nights I was like "fuck I really need to sleep, not to spend 20 minutes writing"
- but the result was that I would also drop my outcomes, even though they could have taken only 2-4 minutes
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- this is a general principle which is something like if you chain a big habit to a small habit, it may break the small habit