What cool/important/useful things has rationality gotten you?
What sticks out for me are some bad things. “Comforting lies” is not an ironic phrase, and since ditching them I haven’t found a large number of comforting truths. So far I haven’t been able to marshal my true beliefs against my bad habits—I come to less wrong partly to try to understand why.
For comfort from uncomforting truths, going meta may help: clearer thinking from more truthful data works to internalise your locus of control—or, to use the conventional term, empower you. It can take a while, and possibly some graspable results, for the prospect of a more internal locus of control to comfort.
What sticks out for me are some bad things. “Comforting lies” is not an ironic phrase, and since ditching them I haven’t found a large number of comforting truths. So far I haven’t been able to marshal my true beliefs against my bad habits—I come to less wrong partly to try to understand why.
For comfort from uncomforting truths, going meta may help: clearer thinking from more truthful data works to internalise your locus of control—or, to use the conventional term, empower you. It can take a while, and possibly some graspable results, for the prospect of a more internal locus of control to comfort.