One problem: a high price can put more stress on a person, and raising the price further won’t fix that!
For instance, say that you leave a fic half-finished, and someone offers a million dollars to MIRI iff you finish it. Would you actually feel cheerful and motivated, or might you feel stressed and avoidant and guilty about being slow, and have a painful experience in actually writing it?
(If you’ve personally mastered your relevant feelings, I think you’d still agree that many people haven’t.)
If someone follows what this post proposes people wouldn’t offer EY a million dollars for MIRI but ask him: “What’s your cheerful price for finishing the fanfic.”
If there’s no price that would make him cheerful then he might say: “I’m already working on it when my creative engines are going and I don’t think additional money would solve the issue” or something similar.
I just want to make sure everyone here knows that HPMOR is complete. If you’ve been holding off reading it until it’s done, it’s okay, you can now finally read it.
I was referring to me! I thought back over my most aversive things and I believe a life coach would have helped me get through all but two with relative ease. Not like butterflies and rainbows, but enough that for an aversive thing now I’d be quite happy to make it happen given, y’know, lots of cash. To be clear, I’m not talking about a once-a-week therapy session, I’m talking about someone sitting with me 8 hours a day.
One problem: a high price can put more stress on a person, and raising the price further won’t fix that!
For instance, say that you leave a fic half-finished, and someone offers a million dollars to MIRI iff you finish it. Would you actually feel cheerful and motivated, or might you feel stressed and avoidant and guilty about being slow, and have a painful experience in actually writing it?
(If you’ve personally mastered your relevant feelings, I think you’d still agree that many people haven’t.)
I don’t know what to do in that case.
If someone follows what this post proposes people wouldn’t offer EY a million dollars for MIRI but ask him: “What’s your cheerful price for finishing the fanfic.”
If there’s no price that would make him cheerful then he might say: “I’m already working on it when my creative engines are going and I don’t think additional money would solve the issue” or something similar.
At a high enough price I would be ecstatic to subcontract to a life coach who will work with me to get it done with a minimum of aversion.
I just want to make sure everyone here knows that HPMOR is complete. If you’ve been holding off reading it until it’s done, it’s okay, you can now finally read it.
That depends on your model about how much a life coach would help. I’m not sure what EY’s experiences with life coaching happen to be.
I was referring to me! I thought back over my most aversive things and I believe a life coach would have helped me get through all but two with relative ease. Not like butterflies and rainbows, but enough that for an aversive thing now I’d be quite happy to make it happen given, y’know, lots of cash. To be clear, I’m not talking about a once-a-week therapy session, I’m talking about someone sitting with me 8 hours a day.