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StickK To Your Commitments [Steven Levitt]

http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/21/stickk-to-your-commitments/

by getp • 19 years ago

5 1 19 years ago

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getp• 19 years ago

It's funny he mentions donating money to the Nazi Party as a means of motivating yourself. I'm planning to do a startup this summer and am saving to get the starting capital. I'm always worrying about not having good enough skills, not knowing enough, etc. So to force myself to start, I made a big deal out of it to tell everyone that I'm going to start this summer, and if I won't start, I'm going to donate the money - about E8000 = $12000 - to the Storm Front or something. Everybody says I'm crazy and if I don't start I should donate the money to a good cause, but the extreme social embarrassment associated with the original setup virtually guarantees I will start this summer :-)

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