Yeah, to me it feels like “sure, you can do ‘magic’ and make me cry and hug and shudder, but that has very little to do with my long-term behavior patterns, it’s just a transient effect.” It feels like being flipped onto the mat by a skilled martial artist; I’m being a guinea pig for someone to demonstrate a cool trick.
My experience is that the cluster of experiences around “cry and hug and shudder” are what it feels like to become aware of something that’s important to my system 1, and that those moments are intervention points for shifting system 1′s heuristics. Progress on reducing akrasia, unendorsed social anxiety, etc. has often come from moments like that.
I don’t know you well, but I model you as someone with strong willpower and a general “mind over matter” attitude. This may make it less salient what your system 1 is up to?
Yeah, to me it feels like “sure, you can do ‘magic’ and make me cry and hug and shudder, but that has very little to do with my long-term behavior patterns, it’s just a transient effect.” It feels like being flipped onto the mat by a skilled martial artist; I’m being a guinea pig for someone to demonstrate a cool trick.
My experience is that the cluster of experiences around “cry and hug and shudder” are what it feels like to become aware of something that’s important to my system 1, and that those moments are intervention points for shifting system 1′s heuristics. Progress on reducing akrasia, unendorsed social anxiety, etc. has often come from moments like that.
I don’t know you well, but I model you as someone with strong willpower and a general “mind over matter” attitude. This may make it less salient what your system 1 is up to?