That’s great, for me that sliding personality scale (particularly of conscientiousness) was at a point of “we have a serious cockroach infestation, despite having been a licensed exterminator in the past, I think I’ll play video games all weekend” or “I don’t feel like filing my taxes for five years”. For people wondering, we have been cockroach free for several years and I ended up hiring a CPA to file all five years of taxes (after the government came banging on my door saying I owed a considerable amount of money which I didn’t actually owe, thank goodness).

The thing is, I was content to just ignore these problems as they didn’t affect me MOST of the time. I only got a few cockroaches on me while I was sleeping, and the government won’t bother you for a few years. In retrospect I’m disgusted by the former especially, and annoyed about the latter, but when you’re living in that situation it’s hard to get yourself out of it. To be clear, I wasn’t particularly depressed, I just would get annoyed when I thought of doing anything other than exactly what I wanted to do at any given time.

I guess you can argue there’s no right or wrong when your life is in relative order but I think it’s naive to use this as general advice.