I just noticed that I’ve got two similarity clusters in my mind that keep getting called to my attention by wording dichotomies like high-priority and low-priority, but that would themselves be better labeled as big and small. This was causing me to interpret phrases like “doing a string of low-priority tasks” as having a positive affect (!) because what it called to mind was my own activity of doing a string of small, on-average medium-priority tasks.
My thought process might improve overall if I toss out the “big” and “small” similarity clusters and replace them with clusters that really are centered around “high-priority” and “low-priority”.
I just noticed that I’ve got two similarity clusters in my mind that keep getting called to my attention by wording dichotomies like high-priority and low-priority, but that would themselves be better labeled as big and small. This was causing me to interpret phrases like “doing a string of low-priority tasks” as having a positive affect (!) because what it called to mind was my own activity of doing a string of small, on-average medium-priority tasks.
My thought process might improve overall if I toss out the “big” and “small” similarity clusters and replace them with clusters that really are centered around “high-priority” and “low-priority”.