I’m a sucker for rsdmotivation. I feel more confident, more self esteem, happy and exercise better listening to it. But, I can’t deconstruct what’s actually meaningful in it. It’s mostly aphorisms and very basic insights about the world, over cinematic music. The cinematic music alone doesn’t do it for me, and the aphorisms alone don’t do it for me. Yet, I feel that ‘ephiphany’ every time. It sorta annoys me, but it works for now.
Comparably, it takes listening to Rise and Grind to get me up sometimes. It works very very well, but it’s unclear to me how or why.
Heck, even the most comically motivating video—Shea la Buff on green screen gets that epiphany kick for me.
Yet. Whenever I mention these things to rationalists the feedback is negative. They work for me! I just can’t reduce them to other principles which have evidence. I don’t feel like epiphany addiction is a mode of instrumental rationality failure, just epistemic rationality failure.
I’m a sucker for rsdmotivation. I feel more confident, more self esteem, happy and exercise better listening to it. But, I can’t deconstruct what’s actually meaningful in it. It’s mostly aphorisms and very basic insights about the world, over cinematic music. The cinematic music alone doesn’t do it for me, and the aphorisms alone don’t do it for me. Yet, I feel that ‘ephiphany’ every time. It sorta annoys me, but it works for now.
Comparably, it takes listening to Rise and Grind to get me up sometimes. It works very very well, but it’s unclear to me how or why.
Meanwhile Become Legendary helps me act in a disciplined way.
Heck, even the most comically motivating video—Shea la Buff on green screen gets that epiphany kick for me.
Yet. Whenever I mention these things to rationalists the feedback is negative. They work for me! I just can’t reduce them to other principles which have evidence. I don’t feel like epiphany addiction is a mode of instrumental rationality failure, just epistemic rationality failure.