if you are first (immensely capable) then you’ll pursue (coherence) as a kind of side effect, because it’s pleasant to pursue.
I’m certain it’s very straw motivation.
Imagine that you are Powerful Person. You find yourself lying in bed all day wallowing in sorrows of this earthly vale. You feel sad and you don’t do anything.
This state is clearly counterproductive for any goal you can have in mind. If you care about sorrows of this earthly vale, you would do better if you earn additional money and donate it, if you don’t, then why suffer? Therefore, you try to mold your mind in shape which doesn’t allow for laying in bed wallowing in sorrows.
From my personal experience, I have ADHD and I’m literally incapable to even write this comment without at least some change of my mindset from default.
it looks like this just kinda sucks as a means
It certainly sucks, because it’s not science and engineering, it’s collection of tricks which may work for you or may not.
On the other hand, we are dealing with selection effects—highly-coherent people don’t need artificial means to increase it and people actively seeking artificial coherence are likely to have executive function deficits or mood disorders.
Also, some methods of increasing coherence are not very dramatic. Writing can plausibly make you more coherent because during writing you will think about your thought process and nobody will notice, because it’s not as sudden as personality change after psychedelics.
I’m certain it’s very straw motivation.
Imagine that you are Powerful Person. You find yourself lying in bed all day wallowing in sorrows of this earthly vale. You feel sad and you don’t do anything.
This state is clearly counterproductive for any goal you can have in mind. If you care about sorrows of this earthly vale, you would do better if you earn additional money and donate it, if you don’t, then why suffer? Therefore, you try to mold your mind in shape which doesn’t allow for laying in bed wallowing in sorrows.
From my personal experience, I have ADHD and I’m literally incapable to even write this comment without at least some change of my mindset from default.
It certainly sucks, because it’s not science and engineering, it’s collection of tricks which may work for you or may not.
On the other hand, we are dealing with selection effects—highly-coherent people don’t need artificial means to increase it and people actively seeking artificial coherence are likely to have executive function deficits or mood disorders.
Also, some methods of increasing coherence are not very dramatic. Writing can plausibly make you more coherent because during writing you will think about your thought process and nobody will notice, because it’s not as sudden as personality change after psychedelics.