As for the “Trying-to-try” page—an argument from Yoda and the Force? It reads like something out of a self-help manual!
Sure: if you are trying to inspire confidence in yourself in order to improve your performance, then you might under some circumstances want to think only of winning—and ignore the possibility of trying and failing. But let’s not get our subjects in a muddle, here—the topic is the definition of instrumental rationality, not how some new-age self-help manual might be written.
As for the “Trying-to-try” page—an argument from Yoda and the Force? It reads like something out of a self-help manual!
Sure: if you are trying to inspire confidence in yourself in order to improve your performance, then you might under some circumstances want to think only of winning—and ignore the possibility of trying and failing. But let’s not get our subjects in a muddle, here—the topic is the definition of instrumental rationality, not how some new-age self-help manual might be written.