My reaction to this post is something like “yes, this is a good practice”, but I’ve done it ,and it pushed me out the other side to believe I can say nothing at all without saying some kind of “should” because if you taboo should enough you run into grounding problems.
This is only to add nuance to your point, though, and I think the practice is worthwhile, because until you’ve done it you likely have a lot of big “should”s in your beliefs gumming up the works. I just think it’s worth pointing out that the category of motivated reasons can’t be made to disappear from thought without giving up thinking all together even if they can be examined and significantly reduced and the right starting advice is just to try to remove them all.
Generally, I let things ground out in “I want X”. There’s value in further unpacking the different flavors of “wanting” things, but that’s orthogonal to what this exercise is meant to achieve.
My reaction to this post is something like “yes, this is a good practice”, but I’ve done it ,and it pushed me out the other side to believe I can say nothing at all without saying some kind of “should” because if you taboo should enough you run into grounding problems.
Cf. no free lunch in value learning
This is only to add nuance to your point, though, and I think the practice is worthwhile, because until you’ve done it you likely have a lot of big “should”s in your beliefs gumming up the works. I just think it’s worth pointing out that the category of motivated reasons can’t be made to disappear from thought without giving up thinking all together even if they can be examined and significantly reduced and the right starting advice is just to try to remove them all.
Generally, I let things ground out in “I want X”. There’s value in further unpacking the different flavors of “wanting” things, but that’s orthogonal to what this exercise is meant to achieve.