Rebalance a personal points system before using it
At a glance
A Hacker News commenter used ChatGPT to revise the rewards, costs, and bonus thresholds in a personal motivation system. This workflow is listed under Daily Routine, Habits, Personal Productivity.
- Agents / tools
- ChatGPT, Text editor
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What they did
1) Prepare the text file that defines your existing system: activities that earn points, activities that spend them, and their current values. Open ChatGPT and paste that file into a conversation. 2) Explain that you use the system to support daily productivity and healthier habits, and ask for feedback on its balance. Request suggestions for point values, additional rewards or costs, and bonuses at cumulative point thresholds. 3) Read the reasoning behind each proposal and choose which changes fit the activities you actually want to encourage. 4) Update your own rules file with the accepted changes and use that revised version as the reference for the points system.
How it went
The commenter says they incorporated many of the suggestions after finding the reasoning persuasive. They did not report measured behavior changes.
