I feel skeptical of this in the context of problems in my life. It feels like there’s a ton of randomness, so I never have a problem ALL of the time given a certain trigger, I just have the problem a bunch
This was my instinctive reaction as well, made clearer by having done a few years of personal data tracking to (among others) A/B test self-improvement experiments. It’s just hard to tell, especially with the low-probability high-severity recurring issues, perhaps complicated by ever-changing life contexts.
Yeah, the intended context is for people who feel like they managed to solve their problem for good, only to have it unexpectedly come back again. If that’s not the context of your problems, then it’s not useful advice for you.
I feel the OP is best thought as a placebo pump rather than a mechanistic one-size-fits-all advice. It might not be the best for you if it lacks some key ingredient you need. Or it might work iff you first create a fiction character that you can feel responsible for many of your problem (« Moloch did this! »), then allow yourself find the >1% of the time where you did successfully overcome the bastard, then you can climb.
I feel skeptical of this in the context of problems in my life. It feels like there’s a ton of randomness, so I never have a problem ALL of the time given a certain trigger, I just have the problem a bunch
This was my instinctive reaction as well, made clearer by having done a few years of personal data tracking to (among others) A/B test self-improvement experiments. It’s just hard to tell, especially with the low-probability high-severity recurring issues, perhaps complicated by ever-changing life contexts.
Yeah, the intended context is for people who feel like they managed to solve their problem for good, only to have it unexpectedly come back again. If that’s not the context of your problems, then it’s not useful advice for you.
I feel the OP is best thought as a placebo pump rather than a mechanistic one-size-fits-all advice. It might not be the best for you if it lacks some key ingredient you need. Or it might work iff you first create a fiction character that you can feel responsible for many of your problem (« Moloch did this! »), then allow yourself find the >1% of the time where you did successfully overcome the bastard, then you can climb.
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