What techniques do other posters, here on LessWrong, use to monitor and counter these effects in their lives?
An obvious technique, which was mentioned in the video, is habituation: deliberately don’t conform on things and it becomes easier.
I thought the point about how having something repeated by a single person is just as good as having many people say it was interesting. This seems like weak evidence that affirmations work, ’cause there’s a chance that it wouldn’t matter if you were the one repeating the thing to yourself.
An obvious technique, which was mentioned in the video, is habituation: deliberately don’t conform on things and it becomes easier.
I thought the point about how having something repeated by a single person is just as good as having many people say it was interesting. This seems like weak evidence that affirmations work, ’cause there’s a chance that it wouldn’t matter if you were the one repeating the thing to yourself.