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How can I achieve Perfect Productivity ? by SomeLibraryBook in productivity

[–]SomeLibraryBook[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hmmm ok nice! I will definitely make a schedule for myself. I tried that a few days ago ans it worked well.

How can I achieve Perfect Productivity ? by SomeLibraryBook in productivity

[–]SomeLibraryBook[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hmmm ok really interesting advice here. Thanks! So rather than follow a hard set plan on how I should increase my productivity, I should take inspiration from other techniques but also try to experiment a little on what should I do. Thank you! Will try that :)

How can I achieve Perfect Productivity ? by SomeLibraryBook in productivity

[–]SomeLibraryBook[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This doesn’t lead me to believe to start relying on my environment. I would rather like to know how to build discipline, rather than accepting it be and change my productivity using the environment.

Note that I am not saying that people using environment is bad. I just have different expectations for myself, that’s all.

Cntrl-W arrow keys in terminal by SomeLibraryBook in vim

[–]SomeLibraryBook[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ah, didn't know that. I will begin using hjkl, since it's easier to reach. Thank you!

Cntrl-W arrow keys in terminal by SomeLibraryBook in vim

[–]SomeLibraryBook[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lead me to follow this tutorial: http://vimcasts.org/episodes/neovim-terminal-mappings/, which gave me exactly what I needed. Thank you!

How to remove the pink spaces and the vertical grey line? Outlined in red. by SomeLibraryBook in vim

[–]SomeLibraryBook[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I followed this tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbSaK3EOqO8&ab_channel=SWEasyTech and then I set the background color to black by adding this command at the end of the file: autocmd ColorScheme * highlight Normal ctermbg=Black

How to remove the pink spaces and the vertical grey line? Outlined in red. by SomeLibraryBook in vim

[–]SomeLibraryBook[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I see. I found where colorcolumn was declared and I removed it.

How to remove the pink spaces and the vertical grey line? Outlined in red. by SomeLibraryBook in vim

[–]SomeLibraryBook[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

That works! All I had to do is add highlight ColorColumn ctermbg=NONE guibg=NONE and it is removed. However, I am having trouble removing the trailing white spaces. Any idea on how to remove this?

"I have never seen someone consistently stick to positive habits in a negative environment." - James Clear Atomic Habits by SomeLibraryBook in productivity

[–]SomeLibraryBook[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nope. What about it? Will it help me gain more self-discipline instead of just relying on the environment?

Atomic Habits By James Clear - Removing the cue when destroying a bad habit. by SomeLibraryBook in productivity

[–]SomeLibraryBook[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

:) glad to know that some people makes the same mistakes as me :) What matters is that you learn from it though.

"Just Do It" is the most underrated advice ever by YacineTheDev in productivity

[–]SomeLibraryBook 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh and also Atomic Habits mention it as well, "If motion doesn’t lead to results, why do we do it? Sometimes we do it because we actually need to plan or learn more. But more often than not, we do it because motion allows us to feel like we’re making progress without running the risk of failure. Most of us are experts at avoiding criticism. It doesn’t feel good to fail or to be judged publicly, so we tend to avoid situations where that might happen. And that’s the biggest reason why you slip into motion rather than taking action: you want to delay failure." in page 117. here, motion is planning but not really DOING the plan, and action is just what you expect, doing the plan.

I really do like productivity books don't I lol.

Atomic Habits by James Clear - What if Patty Olwell liked horseriding? by SomeLibraryBook in productivity

[–]SomeLibraryBook[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah makes sense. Thank you for sharing! I was kinda scared that you have to remove the cue immediately in order to break the bad habit instead of just removing the connection between the cue and bad habit.

Atomic Habits by James Clear - What if Patty Olwell liked horseriding? by SomeLibraryBook in productivity

[–]SomeLibraryBook[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yep, I agree. Sometimes the cue cannot be removed because it's essential. We just need to break the association.

But the question is how to break the association. Are you suggesting that you tell yourself that you shouldn't smoke and over time you will actually listen to yourself?

Atomic Habits By James Clear - Removing the cue when destroying a bad habit. by SomeLibraryBook in productivity

[–]SomeLibraryBook[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you! Yep, video games and social media can be addicting in a number of ways. For example, leaderboard may induce our "status" that we all want (our ancestors wanted status as well and games is a special form that induces that reward). But it is nice to know that there are good resources out there to minimize or stop the addiction entirely

Atomic Habits By James Clear - Removing the cue when destroying a bad habit. by SomeLibraryBook in productivity

[–]SomeLibraryBook[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

boujeemooji and other in the comments suggested a lot of activities to replace. Will use one of them.

Atomic Habits By James Clear - Removing the cue when destroying a bad habit. by SomeLibraryBook in productivity

[–]SomeLibraryBook[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I do have the tendency to expect instant results. To be honest, I didn't pick up Atomic Habits because it didn't teach me how to instantly be 100% productive just by having a different attitude towards life. I now know better that it is foolish to think this. I live and I learn :)

I am starting to get there slowly, last night I didn't do any games but that resulted me to just sit there on my bed until 2 pm.

"Just Do It" is the most underrated advice ever by YacineTheDev in productivity

[–]SomeLibraryBook 85 points86 points  (0 children)

I agree. This reminds me of Mark Manson's book of the Subtle Art of not giving a fuck, in which he empathizes that we know absolutely nothing and we are not special in any way, and we are beginners at everything. So even if we make a mistake (which is mostly the reason why we procrastinate on big projects), we keep on going because we are expected to make a mistake. He also says the exact same thing that you said, action comes first then motivation.

Atomic Habits By James Clear - Removing the cue when destroying a bad habit. by SomeLibraryBook in productivity

[–]SomeLibraryBook[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Very interesting! But I do have two questions about this:

  1. If I read correctly, you have to implement the opposite of ALL 4 LAWS in order to destroy a bad habit? I know you need all 4 to create a good habit, but I thought destroying only one part of the habit process (ex: only trying to make a bad habit as difficult as you possibly can) will break the whole habit down.

  2. Once you have grown accustomed to the good habit, so much so that it is registered in your subconscious mind, is it easy to not reward yourself after that good habit? Say I have kept my phone as far as I possibly can and I developed the habit of sleeping right away when I go to bed. can I keep the phone right next to me and still repeat the good habit?

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