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What I would like is a paid plan where you pay for each day where you don't exercise. See "loss aversion" on Wikipedia for why.
What I would like is a paid plan where you pay for each day where you don't exercise. See "loss aversion" on Wikipedia for why.
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> duolingo owl has so much power over me. I use duolingo as well - and one of the saddest days was when I lost a 100+ day streak. It's funny how a meaningless number can have so much power.
I don't remember perfectly, but the creator of Lodash (javascript library) had something like a 365 day streak of coding everyday. But it was broken because he committed late a night and the cutoff was on a different timezone. He was so bothered by it, he contacted GitHub to fix it for him.
What I would like is a paid plan where you pay for each day where you don't exercise. See "loss aversion" on Wikipedia for why.
That's kind of what you're doing if you get an expensive gym subscription and don't go.
I drank the Samsung kool-aid, with the Galaxy Sx phone, Gear Active watch, and the Level headphones. The Health App has been a win. Tracking meals and what have you is straightforward. But the real win is the gamification of the Global Challenge. While completely meaningless in any real-world sense, somehow keeping the step score and all of the silly achievements and missions help to quantify and motivate. Recently,…
This is exactly why duolingo owl has so much power over me. Can't lose my 235 day streak and can't drop out of to a lower league after working so hard to get to that league.
Streaks are often self-defeating. A few samples from the duolingo forums where this comes up frequently: https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/17598950/The-demotivation... https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/3705144/Streak-Breaker-Wh... https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/7927344/Lost-streak-and-m...
You just have to reprogram yourself to do it.
Nothing else but ACTION will suffice for exercising.
A very fit friend of mine said to me many years ago "I just don't give myself any choice about whether I'm going to the gym."
You can talk and use apps and make plans and get trainers and coaches and excuses etc etc etc but in the end the ONLY thing that works is ACTION - go and exercise. Find an exercise that suits you. I like running because it's so easy - just pull on shoes and go - and you can listen to podcasts as you do it. Also CrossFit because I find exercise boring so it's really great to do a group class where the instructor tells you what to do - all I need to do is turn up for an hour and hand over all the thinking about it to someone else and leave fitter and hour later.
Streaks are often self-defeating. A few samples from the duolingo forums where this comes up frequently: https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/17598950/The-demotivation... https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/3705144/Streak-Breaker-Wh... https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/7927344/Lost-streak-and-m...
I had a several hundred day streak on duolingo, lost it and haven't opened the app since. Why would I, all my hard work is lost? I didn't actively think about it until I saw this.