I experienced something similar with spelling mistakes for a while. The solution was to explicitly conceptualize text-on-the-page as separate from idealized-text, so that the mistakes could be imagined to be blissfully absent in the idealized text.
The issue is that when you notice a bug, there is an urge to fix it that demands satisfaction. Sometimes, there is an actual plan that fixes the bug, but intuition won’t come up with it, so deliberative thought needs to help. When fixing the bug is not on the table, it might suffice to just carefully formulate what’s known about it, perhaps writing up some notes.
For people, productive activities include charity and steelmanning: figuring out why a behavior actually happens and how to channel its purpose better.
I experienced something similar with spelling mistakes for a while. The solution was to explicitly conceptualize text-on-the-page as separate from idealized-text, so that the mistakes could be imagined to be blissfully absent in the idealized text.
The issue is that when you notice a bug, there is an urge to fix it that demands satisfaction. Sometimes, there is an actual plan that fixes the bug, but intuition won’t come up with it, so deliberative thought needs to help. When fixing the bug is not on the table, it might suffice to just carefully formulate what’s known about it, perhaps writing up some notes.
For people, productive activities include charity and steelmanning: figuring out why a behavior actually happens and how to channel its purpose better.
Thanks for the link, the chewing example does feels similar to my experience, will try to think about that.