There’s something that I’ve always been curious about but never had the chance to ask: as a psychiatrist and psychologist, to what extent has your training helped you avoid or solve your own mental health problems? How helpful has it been?
My guess is that it is only somewhat helpful. Many doctors smoke and eat unhealthy foods even though they’ve spent years studying just how harmful that stuff is. It seems to me that this is an area where “incremental improvements in rationality don’t always lead to incremental improvements in winning” is true.
There’s something that I’ve always been curious about but never had the chance to ask: as a psychiatrist and psychologist, to what extent has your training helped you avoid or solve your own mental health problems? How helpful has it been?
My guess is that it is only somewhat helpful. Many doctors smoke and eat unhealthy foods even though they’ve spent years studying just how harmful that stuff is. It seems to me that this is an area where “incremental improvements in rationality don’t always lead to incremental improvements in winning” is true.