My mind gets distracted, or I ‘hold onto’ the resistance so that it doesn’t go away. And I endorse the resistance more than the intent to get out of bed or w/e, which feels arbitrary or ‘from outside’.
I usually don’t do things that don’t come from my elephant directly or isn’t checked and greenlit by the elephant. (But then I get confused why it works for Qiaochu who seems similar to me.)
I might keep trying and seeing if I find a version that works.
I think how much you don’t want it to work probably matters. Again, not only will your mind inhibit you from sticking your hand in boiling water, but your mind will be right to do it. You have to pick something that you feel mild but not extraordinary resistance to doing.
Thanks for trying it and reporting back. I’m really curious to hear if you get it to work.
Well, I haven’t tried it on something I don’t elephant-endorse yet.
I think I previously had a strong sense of there being a part of me that actively didn’t want me to do various things, but in the striatum-receiving-bids model of action selection it makes more sense to think of not-doing-anything as the default thing that happens in the absence of sufficiently strong bids, and all I’m doing is amplifying whatever bids are present, which feels less bad to me than crashing through my resistance.
Well, maybe the problem is:
It doesn’t work because I don’t want it to work. This matches my understanding of predictive processing theory.
My mind gets distracted, or I ‘hold onto’ the resistance so that it doesn’t go away. And I endorse the resistance more than the intent to get out of bed or w/e, which feels arbitrary or ‘from outside’.
I usually don’t do things that don’t come from my elephant directly or isn’t checked and greenlit by the elephant. (But then I get confused why it works for Qiaochu who seems similar to me.)
I might keep trying and seeing if I find a version that works.
I think how much you don’t want it to work probably matters. Again, not only will your mind inhibit you from sticking your hand in boiling water, but your mind will be right to do it. You have to pick something that you feel mild but not extraordinary resistance to doing.
Thanks for trying it and reporting back. I’m really curious to hear if you get it to work.
Well, I haven’t tried it on something I don’t elephant-endorse yet.
I think I previously had a strong sense of there being a part of me that actively didn’t want me to do various things, but in the striatum-receiving-bids model of action selection it makes more sense to think of not-doing-anything as the default thing that happens in the absence of sufficiently strong bids, and all I’m doing is amplifying whatever bids are present, which feels less bad to me than crashing through my resistance.
Hmmmmmm. Yeahhh, let me try it on something I actually want to do.
Suspicious. I immediately sat up, and there was no notable resistance.
If it only works on things I want to do, then this technique is asymmetric, not symmetric for me. Which I guess is a good thing.
I can’t tell if it’s symmetric for the rest of ya’ll.