Lots of things have very counterintuitive or indirect values. If you don’t take this into account and you make decisions based on maximizing value you might end up macnamara-ing yourself hard.
The stages of learning something: (1) “this is super overwhelming! I don’t think I’ll ever understand it. there are so many things I need to keep track of. just trying to wrap my mind around it makes me feel slightly queasy” (2) “hmm this seems to actually make some sense, I’m starting to get the hang of this” (3) “this is so simple and obviously true, I’ve always known it to be true, I can’t believe anyone doesn’t understand this” (you start noticing that your explanations of the thing become indistinguishable from the things you originally felt overwhelmed by) (4) “this new thing [that builds on top of the thing you just learned] is super overwhelming! I don’t think I’ll ever understand it”
The feeling of regret really sucks. This is a bad thing, because it creates an incentive to never reflect on things or realize your mistakes. This shows up as a quite painful aversion to reflecting on mistakes, doing a postmortem, and improving. I would like to somehow trick my brain into reframing things somehow. Maybe thinking of it as a strict improvement over the status quo of having done things wrong? Or maybe reminding myself that the regret will be even worse if I don’t do anything because I’ll regret not reflecting in addition
Lots of things have very counterintuitive or indirect values. If you don’t take this into account and you make decisions based on maximizing value you might end up macnamara-ing yourself hard.
The stages of learning something: (1) “this is super overwhelming! I don’t think I’ll ever understand it. there are so many things I need to keep track of. just trying to wrap my mind around it makes me feel slightly queasy” (2) “hmm this seems to actually make some sense, I’m starting to get the hang of this” (3) “this is so simple and obviously true, I’ve always known it to be true, I can’t believe anyone doesn’t understand this” (you start noticing that your explanations of the thing become indistinguishable from the things you originally felt overwhelmed by) (4) “this new thing [that builds on top of the thing you just learned] is super overwhelming! I don’t think I’ll ever understand it”
The feeling of regret really sucks. This is a bad thing, because it creates an incentive to never reflect on things or realize your mistakes. This shows up as a quite painful aversion to reflecting on mistakes, doing a postmortem, and improving. I would like to somehow trick my brain into reframing things somehow. Maybe thinking of it as a strict improvement over the status quo of having done things wrong? Or maybe reminding myself that the regret will be even worse if I don’t do anything because I’ll regret not reflecting in addition