I wonder if my examples may have just been bad. Do you agree about my general point about flinch-y type topics being hard to debug and Litany of Gendlin-style things to be useful for doing so?
EX:
In the food example, if you don’t know about rotting food, it’ll become more unpleasant to take out later on.
The homework example may actually be not as good. But note that if you do homework early, you save future You any more anguish thinking about how it’s undone.
For the planning thing, I think that I disagree with you. The literature on planning has some minor studies showing that estimation time does in part slightly positively affect performance (hence my use of “largely”), but I think there are far more severe consequences that can arise when your predictions are miscalibrated. (e.g. making promises you can’t keep, getting overloaded, etc.)
My general point is not that, all things considered, it is better in those particular cases to flinch away. I am saying that flinching has both costs and benefits, not only costs, and consequently there may be particular cases when you are better off flinching away.
I wonder if my examples may have just been bad. Do you agree about my general point about flinch-y type topics being hard to debug and Litany of Gendlin-style things to be useful for doing so?
EX:
In the food example, if you don’t know about rotting food, it’ll become more unpleasant to take out later on.
The homework example may actually be not as good. But note that if you do homework early, you save future You any more anguish thinking about how it’s undone.
For the planning thing, I think that I disagree with you. The literature on planning has some minor studies showing that estimation time does in part slightly positively affect performance (hence my use of “largely”), but I think there are far more severe consequences that can arise when your predictions are miscalibrated. (e.g. making promises you can’t keep, getting overloaded, etc.)
My general point is not that, all things considered, it is better in those particular cases to flinch away. I am saying that flinching has both costs and benefits, not only costs, and consequently there may be particular cases when you are better off flinching away.