I tend to have a sort of opposite problem to the Hufflepuff trap: I can run through the exercise and see practical actions I could take, but then do not find them compelling.
Often I can even pull myself all the way through to writing down the specifics of an exercise I could do within five minutes and then… I just leave it on the page and go back to playing phone games.
Some of the things you say about willpower at the end resonate more with me, but the place willpower needs to get used is different for me, and saying I need to use willpower doesn’t result in willpower being used by me. Many posts in the past have discussed this problem and I don’t want to derail the discussion (though I haven’t really found any of them to help me much).
But moving forward from that, if there are people whose problems are more “flinch away from acknowledging the correct behavior” and my problems are more “fail to execute on the correct behavior” that suggests an interesting division of labor possibility for paired productivity. Unfortunately one of the important components in getting there is “hang out with other rationalists in a more personal setting” which is perhaps chief among my correct behaviors that I’ve failed to execute on.
I tend to have a sort of opposite problem to the Hufflepuff trap: I can run through the exercise and see practical actions I could take, but then do not find them compelling.
Often I can even pull myself all the way through to writing down the specifics of an exercise I could do within five minutes and then… I just leave it on the page and go back to playing phone games.
Some of the things you say about willpower at the end resonate more with me, but the place willpower needs to get used is different for me, and saying I need to use willpower doesn’t result in willpower being used by me. Many posts in the past have discussed this problem and I don’t want to derail the discussion (though I haven’t really found any of them to help me much).
But moving forward from that, if there are people whose problems are more “flinch away from acknowledging the correct behavior” and my problems are more “fail to execute on the correct behavior” that suggests an interesting division of labor possibility for paired productivity. Unfortunately one of the important components in getting there is “hang out with other rationalists in a more personal setting” which is perhaps chief among my correct behaviors that I’ve failed to execute on.