I have the same problem. But I kind of focus on my goals and don’t care so much about what other people say do or recommend. I also doubt that learning about rationality changed you. It was caring about rationality. Because I cared about it most of the time quiet deeply and I was a bit like that all the time. Find people like yourself and if there are no people like yourself just do what you enjoy. And to a certain extent you can enjoy irrational people. They have often some resemblance of humor. Also we are probably not totally rational.
I know I’m not totally rational, most of my anger was coming from my own cognitive missteps that I was explicitly warned against while studying rationality. I also knew that I wasn’t perfect before, I think my anger came out when I witnessed rationality dropping below what I thought were unjustifiable levels (because I was failing to understand what could be messing up other people’s cognitive skills or how they could have had so few to start with).
I can hear my thoughts and I can see they have changed. I’m performing all kind of mental operations that I wasn’t doing before, so the way my brain produces beliefs has changed.
Also, I was caring about rationality a lot before going in the second phase of my training. I don’t think I care more now, just that I know better about it and I can see irrationality more clearly.
You are right about the fact that my “caring about rationality” so much was the fuel for my change, I wouldn’t have applied myself this hard if I didn’t just cared so much about finally having a way to be a lot smarter.
I have the same problem. But I kind of focus on my goals and don’t care so much about what other people say do or recommend. I also doubt that learning about rationality changed you. It was caring about rationality. Because I cared about it most of the time quiet deeply and I was a bit like that all the time. Find people like yourself and if there are no people like yourself just do what you enjoy. And to a certain extent you can enjoy irrational people. They have often some resemblance of humor. Also we are probably not totally rational.
I know I’m not totally rational, most of my anger was coming from my own cognitive missteps that I was explicitly warned against while studying rationality. I also knew that I wasn’t perfect before, I think my anger came out when I witnessed rationality dropping below what I thought were unjustifiable levels (because I was failing to understand what could be messing up other people’s cognitive skills or how they could have had so few to start with).
I can hear my thoughts and I can see they have changed. I’m performing all kind of mental operations that I wasn’t doing before, so the way my brain produces beliefs has changed.
Also, I was caring about rationality a lot before going in the second phase of my training. I don’t think I care more now, just that I know better about it and I can see irrationality more clearly.
You are right about the fact that my “caring about rationality” so much was the fuel for my change, I wouldn’t have applied myself this hard if I didn’t just cared so much about finally having a way to be a lot smarter.