Feeling revulsion about things seems like a useful survival trait.
I’m not planning to lose my sense of revulsion any time soon, only to become able to ignore/suppress emotions when they’re not useful, like when deciding on a charity to sponsor or whether to eat revolting celery or non-revolting cupcakes.
Controlling your emotions is probably better-taught by participating in an adult-
literacy program, or voice-only technical support
Horror movies are entertaining, and if you have cardio equipment you can easily do 2 hours of exercise painlessly while watching one. If you already use spaced repetition, it might take at most 10 hours total over the course of your lifetime to get a hundred shock pictures and rate the due ones daily for how much you flinched when you saw them.
The first option in particular seems orders of magnitude more efficient than spending hours answering boring tech-support calls for low pay.
Oh, nono. I didn’t mean for low pay, I meant for free. Sorry about that.
A senior citizen computer program would also work well for the same reasons (immediate feedback about communication)
Working or volunteering at a rest home might be even better. Controlling revulsion might be useful, but controlling frustration and helplessness may be even more useful.
I’m not planning to lose my sense of revulsion any time soon, only to become able to ignore/suppress emotions when they’re not useful, like when deciding on a charity to sponsor or whether to eat revolting celery or non-revolting cupcakes.
Horror movies are entertaining, and if you have cardio equipment you can easily do 2 hours of exercise painlessly while watching one. If you already use spaced repetition, it might take at most 10 hours total over the course of your lifetime to get a hundred shock pictures and rate the due ones daily for how much you flinched when you saw them.
The first option in particular seems orders of magnitude more efficient than spending hours answering boring tech-support calls for low pay.
Oh, nono. I didn’t mean for low pay, I meant for free. Sorry about that. A senior citizen computer program would also work well for the same reasons (immediate feedback about communication)
Working or volunteering at a rest home might be even better. Controlling revulsion might be useful, but controlling frustration and helplessness may be even more useful.
Edit—please disregard this post