Some motivations: I’m negotiating to order a custom hiking stick, and I want to be able to actually use the thing properly without ending up dragging it behind me after so many kilometers because it’s too heavy. I want to be the sort of person who could be described as a PC instead of a mere NPC; someone who is at least vaguely capable in a wide variety of situations. (Eg, I’m trying to figure out if it’s worth the effort to try to swing the tuition costs for St. John’s Ambulance first-aid training.) I want to be able to pull my own weight—literally—if I have to.
Some fears: I don’t trust my understanding of quantum theory and the MWI to rely on Everett Immortality keeping me alive; if I’m not ready to deal with whatever comes close to killing me next, then I could very well end up permanently dead, in all branches of the future leading from this point. There are few enough people who even think about x-risks; how can I consider myself competent to even start thinking about ways to avoid those if I’m not competent enough to do a few push-ups? If ancestor simulations turn out to be feasible, then if this is the original version of history, won’t all my future copies be rather annoyed at me for leaving them as un-exercised weaklings (and won’t the simulators laugh at them)?; and if this is a simulation, then if I can’t do better than my original, then what’s the point of me?
(… Okay, so not all of those are actual /fears/ per se, but if an extremely hypothetical stick is enough of one to kick me in the rear to keep going, I’m willing to work with it.)
I don’t trust my understanding of quantum theory and the MWI to rely on Everett Immortality keeping me alive; if I’m not ready to deal with whatever comes close to killing me next, then I could very well end up permanently dead, in all branches of the future leading from this point.
Fear of death is a strong one. You could go associate that fear more and use it to push you to take action. Where do you feel that fear in your body?
Deassociated fear freezes people. Associating emotions generally produces action. Alternatively people can also find a way to deassociate them to escape them.
The kind of fear that can’t be felt as movement in some part of the body is deassociated that why I ask where he can feel it in his body.
That’s suggest the feeling is either disassociated or you just try to construct something intellectually that isn’t there. In that form it won’t help much with motivation.
While I think about it, trying to get strangers on the internet that I don’t really know to associate a strong fear of death to motivate themselves might be an infohazard.
Some motivations: I’m negotiating to order a custom hiking stick, and I want to be able to actually use the thing properly without ending up dragging it behind me after so many kilometers because it’s too heavy. I want to be the sort of person who could be described as a PC instead of a mere NPC; someone who is at least vaguely capable in a wide variety of situations. (Eg, I’m trying to figure out if it’s worth the effort to try to swing the tuition costs for St. John’s Ambulance first-aid training.) I want to be able to pull my own weight—literally—if I have to.
Some fears: I don’t trust my understanding of quantum theory and the MWI to rely on Everett Immortality keeping me alive; if I’m not ready to deal with whatever comes close to killing me next, then I could very well end up permanently dead, in all branches of the future leading from this point. There are few enough people who even think about x-risks; how can I consider myself competent to even start thinking about ways to avoid those if I’m not competent enough to do a few push-ups? If ancestor simulations turn out to be feasible, then if this is the original version of history, won’t all my future copies be rather annoyed at me for leaving them as un-exercised weaklings (and won’t the simulators laugh at them)?; and if this is a simulation, then if I can’t do better than my original, then what’s the point of me?
(… Okay, so not all of those are actual /fears/ per se, but if an extremely hypothetical stick is enough of one to kick me in the rear to keep going, I’m willing to work with it.)
Fear of death is a strong one. You could go associate that fear more and use it to push you to take action. Where do you feel that fear in your body?
Fear can also “freeze” people.
Deassociated fear freezes people. Associating emotions generally produces action. Alternatively people can also find a way to deassociate them to escape them.
The kind of fear that can’t be felt as movement in some part of the body is deassociated that why I ask where he can feel it in his body.
Er… Nowhere, at least that I notice?
That’s suggest the feeling is either disassociated or you just try to construct something intellectually that isn’t there. In that form it won’t help much with motivation.
While I think about it, trying to get strangers on the internet that I don’t really know to associate a strong fear of death to motivate themselves might be an infohazard.