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.
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.