How to Hack Your System to Make It So You Stick With Things When You Want to Finish Them

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When I was young, I had a really major problem, which is that I would start projects and then I would never finish them. And this is probably the most life changing like one single thing I ever did to make it so I stick with things when I want to stick with them. For people who are like my young self, that's not going to think about. But there may be for any given person who does have a challenge of like just stopping projects too often or flipping projects too often. You can't be involved in another person so that you have that social reinforcement or maybe it's something else.

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Rob Wiblin is the Head of Research at 80,000 Hours where he investigates how people can do more good in the course of their career and produces a long-form interview show called the 80,000 Hours Podcast. He studied genetics and economics in Australia before moving to the UK to help develop the emerging field of effective altruism. You can learn more about Rob at robwiblin.com, learn more about his research work at 80000hours.org, and follow him on social media at @robertwiblin.

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