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Increasing willpower is seen by some as a solution to akrasia. On the other hand, many favor using tools such as Internal Double Crux to resolve internal mental conflicts until one wants to do the perform the reflectively endorsed task. The "resolve internal conflicts" approach is often related to viewing the mind in terms of parts that disagree with each other.

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See also

  • Attention
  • Motivations
  • Prioritization
  • Procrastination
  • Productivity
  • Willpower
  • Adaptation executers
  • Trivial inconvenience
  • Aversion/Ugh field
  • Compartmentalization
  • Preference

External links

  • Akrasia at Psychology Wiki
  • Weakness of Will, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  • Beeminder, community-member developed tool for commitment via self-imposed financial penalties

Increasing willpower is seen by some as a solution to akrasia, though many favor trying to resolve internal mental conflicts until one wants to do the perform the reflectively endorsed task. The "resolve internal conflicts" approach is often related to viewing the mind in terms of parts that disagree with each other.

Increasing willpower is seen by some as a solution to akrasia, thoughakrasia. On the other hand, many favor tryingusing tools such as Internal Double Crux to resolve internal mental conflicts until one wants to do the perform the reflectively endorsed task. The "resolve internal conflicts" approach is often related to viewing the mind in terms of parts that disagree with each other.

Akrasia is the state of acting against one's better judgment. Examples of akrasia include procrastination and inabilityA canonical example is procrastination. 

Increasing willpower is seen by some as a solution to form strong cooperating communities.

Note that, for example, if you are procrastinating because it's not in your best interestakrasia, though many favor trying to completeresolve internal mental conflicts until one wants to do the task you are delaying, it is not a case of akrasia.

Blog posts

  • Self-deception: Hypocrisy or Akrasia?
  • Chaotic Inversion
  • Akrasia and Shangri-La
  • Working hurts less than procrastination, we feelperform the twinge of starting
  • Akrasia, hyperbolic discounting, and picoeconomics by ciphergoth
  • Cached Procrastination by jimrandomh
  • Applied Picoeconomics by Yvain
  • When Willpower Attacks by jimrandomh - How overly strong willpower can get you in trouble.
  • Compartmentalization in epistemic and instrumental rationality by Anna Salamon
  • Poll results: LW probably doesn't cause Akrasia by Anna Salamon
  • Akrasia Tactics Review by orthonormal
  • How to Beat Procrastination by lukeprog
  • My Algorithm for Beating Procrastination by lukeprog
  • Anti-akrasia tool: like stickK.com for data nerds by dreeves

External links

  • Akrasia at Psychology Wiki
  • Weakness of Will, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  • Beeminder

See also

  • Adaptation executers
  • Trivial inconvenience
  • Ugh field
  • Compartmentalization
  • Preference

reflectively endorsed task. 

  • Akrasia at Psychology Wiki
  • Weakness of Will, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  • [Beeminder](http://beeminder.com "Quantified Self + commitment contracts")Beeminder
  • Attention
  • Motivations
  • Prioritization
  • Procrastination
  • Productivity
  • Willpower
  • Adaptation executers
  • Trivial inconvenience
  • Aversion/Ugh field
  • Compartmentalization
  • Preference
  • Pica