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Create pre-commitments with sufficient irreversibility or

Create pre-commitments with sufficient irreversibility or friction that reversal costs more willpower than compliance.

Why This Is a Principle

This principle follows from the axiom that cognitive resources are finite and deplete with use (Directed Attention as Depletable Resource). It prescribes how to design commitment devices: make undoing the commitment more expensive than following through. This is derived (not foundational) and actionable (tells you how to design commitments).

Source Lessons

L-1126

Pre-commitment replaces willpower

Deciding in advance eliminates the need for willpower at the moment of action.

Connections

Derived From (1)

AxiomDirected Attention as Depletable Resource

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