NancyLebovitz comments on A Rational Education

NancyLebovitz 25 Jun 2010 11:23 UTC
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But if rewarding oneself for successfully focusing conscious attention on self-deception, over time, inevitably makes one aware primarily of only the surface manifestations of self-deception, then attempting to increase one’s focus on self-deception is largely futile. I really don’t know what to suggest, but I urgently want a strategy.

Tentative suggestion: Aim for self-reward for increased awareness and checking for truth, not for any particular finding.
- MichaelVassar 25 Jun 2010 14:38 UTC
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  Hell yeah.
  And if you can fully pull That One off, you are now non-attached… a Bodhisattva.
  - NancyLebovitz 25 Jun 2010 14:45 UTC
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    Fortunately, even partial success is very useful.
    
    I suppose that what I offered was a meta-strategy, and getting it down to strategy and tactics is the hard part.
    
    And “self-reward” has its own problems, of course.
    - xamdam 12 Jul 2010 16:33 UTC
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      And “self-reward” has its own problems, of course.
      
      ‘Hell yeah’ as Michael would put it. Did you have any concrete strategies of self-rewarding that worked at all?