Maybe you could give some examples of the sort of rationalizations you’re referring to in your post, so we would better know how to answer your question? I think I might fall into this category, but I might not. I frequently think it would be a good idea for me to do something, but I don’t do it and tell myself I lack the necessary psychological strength. Is this rationalizing? Also, I sometimes experience ugh fields around learning things that might be uncomfortable (in this sense a student might be afraid to see what score they got on a test).
I don’t claim to have always been this way; I was famous for lawyer style argument in elementary school. Just with exposure to less wrong (which I found somewhat early, at age 15).
Edit: I now no longer claim to not rationalize, only to do it fairly little, and I’m fairly uncertain about the entire issue.
Maybe you could give some examples of the sort of rationalizations you’re referring to in your post, so we would better know how to answer your question? I think I might fall into this category, but I might not. I frequently think it would be a good idea for me to do something, but I don’t do it and tell myself I lack the necessary psychological strength. Is this rationalizing? Also, I sometimes experience ugh fields around learning things that might be uncomfortable (in this sense a student might be afraid to see what score they got on a test).
I don’t claim to have always been this way; I was famous for lawyer style argument in elementary school. Just with exposure to less wrong (which I found somewhat early, at age 15).
Edit: I now no longer claim to not rationalize, only to do it fairly little, and I’m fairly uncertain about the entire issue.