Create Positive Affordances

I don't like it when people talk about motivation, discipline, etc.

Rather, whenever possible, I want to set up my life so I don't have to rely on a fragile well of motivation, inspiration, discipline, or whatever.

Possible options:

• Keep books you want to read laying around the house to read

  • Don't overdo this (it's really easy to do digitally)—too much can lead to the paradox of choice where the struggle to decide prevents you from reading at all.

• Purposely invest in beautiful and/or expensive copies of books you want to read. (In other words, leverage the sunk cost fallacy.