Your guess above, plus: the person’s “main/egoic part”, who has have mastered far-mode reasoning and the rationalist/Bayesian toolkit, and who is out to “listen patiently to the dumb near-mode parts that foolishly want to do things other than save the world,” can in some people, with social “support” from outside them, help those parts to overpower other bits of the psyche in ways that’re more like tricking and less like “tug of wars”, without realizing they’re doing this.
Your guess above, plus: the person’s “main/egoic part”, who has have mastered far-mode reasoning and the rationalist/Bayesian toolkit, and who is out to “listen patiently to the dumb near-mode parts that foolishly want to do things other than save the world,” can in some people, with social “support” from outside them, help those parts to overpower other bits of the psyche in ways that’re more like tricking and less like “tug of wars”, without realizing they’re doing this.