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# 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_cost).


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