I’ve seen other discussions of this material, but the ‘make sure not to do this’ parts made it felt more complete:
Remember, the point of goal factoring is not to pick and action and convince yourself that it’s a good/bad action. Keep your bottom line empty.
Style:
Completeness check: [the way you] check if you’ve written down all the goals is to pretend that you already have everything you’ve written down in abundance. If you’ve written down all the goals, then you should feel no desire to perform the action any more.
I agree that that comment didn’t really add that much. I was just trying to caution against the view that goal factoring was a technique for convincing yourself to take/not take certain actions. I’m not sure whether I should have spent more time discussing that though, because I’m not sure how common such a failure mode is.
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I’ve seen other discussions of this material, but the ‘make sure not to do this’ parts made it felt more complete:
Style:
I agree that that comment didn’t really add that much. I was just trying to caution against the view that goal factoring was a technique for convincing yourself to take/not take certain actions. I’m not sure whether I should have spent more time discussing that though, because I’m not sure how common such a failure mode is.
Thanks for the style pointer!
I was saying that it did add something, and that I appreciated it.