This seems like an excellent if somewhat extreme example of a common problem most of us have from time to time, the infamous akrasia: “the state of acting against one’s better judgment”. (Insert the appropriate “wants vs meta-wants”, “limited introspection” and “weak willpower” mutterings.) My guess would be that attempting to trace every minute detail of your thoughts and feelings (which are reflections of thoughts unavailable to introspection) and writing them down may give you a hint at where and why your rebellious subconsciousness takes over and says “STFU, I aint going to no doctor”.
Another approach is to contact jimmy, who can probably fix you in no time flat.
Agreed. I’ll add that I found it useful to separate finding out what I’m thinking from trying to change my behavior.
This means that I kept asking myself what I was doing, and even if the answer was “playing a video game even though I’m not having fun with it”, I was still under no obligation to stop playing.
I think this is valuable because akrasia can result from having counterproductive methods of trying to motivate oneself.
This seems like an excellent if somewhat extreme example of a common problem most of us have from time to time, the infamous akrasia: “the state of acting against one’s better judgment”. (Insert the appropriate “wants vs meta-wants”, “limited introspection” and “weak willpower” mutterings.) My guess would be that attempting to trace every minute detail of your thoughts and feelings (which are reflections of thoughts unavailable to introspection) and writing them down may give you a hint at where and why your rebellious subconsciousness takes over and says “STFU, I aint going to no doctor”.
Another approach is to contact jimmy, who can probably fix you in no time flat.
Agreed. I’ll add that I found it useful to separate finding out what I’m thinking from trying to change my behavior.
This means that I kept asking myself what I was doing, and even if the answer was “playing a video game even though I’m not having fun with it”, I was still under no obligation to stop playing.
I think this is valuable because akrasia can result from having counterproductive methods of trying to motivate oneself.
I also paid attention to how I felt when I did things—this was mostly to give myself more data about what it was like when I wasn’t blocking myself.
And I focused on the fact that I wasn’t struck by lightning when I made things a little better.