It’d require more maintenance work—the new set point is still artificial, just not unsustainably so, and the higher one goes the more one has to prop it up. I don’t presently have a way to hack deep enough to make the new set point effortlessly native.
I find extreme moods in general, including nice ones, to be disabling. When I am very happy I don’t want to do work, I just want to twirl around grinning like an idiot and babble about what a beautiful day it is. 5 is a comfortable and practical place for me to spend most of my time. Other people may not have this trait.
Greed isn’t a sufficient motivation to prompt the systematic, deep changes I made. It took actual danger to my life to make this a high enough priority. I don’t have a good reason to believe that the 5 set point is endangering me.
There are certain forms of circumstantial stability (money, family, residence) that I do not have, and while it isn’t urgent to me that I have them right now, it is a very significant long term goal of mine that I eventually acquire them. Becoming significantly higher set-pointed than I am now would require either excising these goals, so their not being satisfied would cease to unsettle me in the background, or satisfying these goals, which isn’t feasible or clever right now.
Maybe. I haven’t tried it because:
It’d require more maintenance work—the new set point is still artificial, just not unsustainably so, and the higher one goes the more one has to prop it up. I don’t presently have a way to hack deep enough to make the new set point effortlessly native.
I find extreme moods in general, including nice ones, to be disabling. When I am very happy I don’t want to do work, I just want to twirl around grinning like an idiot and babble about what a beautiful day it is. 5 is a comfortable and practical place for me to spend most of my time. Other people may not have this trait.
Greed isn’t a sufficient motivation to prompt the systematic, deep changes I made. It took actual danger to my life to make this a high enough priority. I don’t have a good reason to believe that the 5 set point is endangering me.
There are certain forms of circumstantial stability (money, family, residence) that I do not have, and while it isn’t urgent to me that I have them right now, it is a very significant long term goal of mine that I eventually acquire them. Becoming significantly higher set-pointed than I am now would require either excising these goals, so their not being satisfied would cease to unsettle me in the background, or satisfying these goals, which isn’t feasible or clever right now.