I maintain an attitude of always being in competition with FBeyer in the future.vezkor wrote:...
What I do instead of "hard and fast" rules, in general, is simply maintain an attitude of being in constant competition with "Vezkor from last year"...
I always look to where I want to go, not where I was one year ago. That relation to the past holds no value to me unless my environment is completely the same; which so far it hasn't been even once.
My improvement in mathematics over the last year has little value, because where I'm going is a lot more complex than where I thought I was going one year ago. 2016's FBeyer is a better statistician than 2015's FBeyer, but 2018's FBeyer needs to be sharp as a f**** katana if he wants to get the job he's aiming for.
So in the spirit of behavioral motivators: I try to be very defeatist about my past, although not orthopraxically[1] so. We all fall off he wagon from time to time
[1] I invented a word there I believe.