TurnTrout comments on Unraveling the Failure’s Try

[TurnTrout]

Good observations, and welcome! This is indeed somewhat covered later in the Sequences: Challenging the Difficult.

There’s also a MtG author who famously wrote about self-sabotage, but I can’t quite remember the name.

[Said Achmiz]

Stuck In The Middle With Bruce

Edit: Damn, Aiyen beat me to it.

Edit 2: But here’s a Less Wrong post/​discussion about it.