I’m not quite sure whether this resonates with me personally. It’s all worded fairly strongly/confidently/universally, which probably helps it be motivational for a subset of people at the expense of being epistemically robust.
I had a thought on this line:
But if you experience some particular emotion (particularly a negative one) unusually often, that’s a strong sign that you should sit down at some point and figure out what its underlying cause is.
I think this is a totally true sentence, but I’d come at it from a frame that’s not rooted in “figure out courage or self-deception in particular” – I think when I’m having having a strong, persistent emotion, that’s a good sign that “something is up” that I should investigate, but I’d do so with a pretty open mind about what you might find.
See tuning your emotional processing, and the notion of “keeping emotional-inbox-zero” so problems don’t accumulate and build on each other.
Ty for the feedback, seems fair + useful. I’ve just gone through and added more epistemic signposting + softened the language at various points. Was this the main reason you kept it a personal blogpost?
I think this is a totally true sentence, but I’d come at it from a frame that’s not rooted in “figure out courage or self-deception in particular” – I think when I’m having having a strong, persistent emotion, that’s a good sign that “something is up” that I should investigate, but I’d do so with a pretty open mind about what you might find.
Also agree. Have now edited the relevant paragraph to read:
There’s no silver bullet for tackling either of these, but they’re often associated with strong emotions which recur in a wide range of situations. Throughout this sequence I’ve described various ways to understand such emotions; the self-deception frame can be seen as one more tool for doing so, by asking: if a part of me was using these emotions to try to hide something, what would it be?
I’m not quite sure whether this resonates with me personally. It’s all worded fairly strongly/confidently/universally, which probably helps it be motivational for a subset of people at the expense of being epistemically robust.
I had a thought on this line:
I think this is a totally true sentence, but I’d come at it from a frame that’s not rooted in “figure out courage or self-deception in particular” – I think when I’m having having a strong, persistent emotion, that’s a good sign that “something is up” that I should investigate, but I’d do so with a pretty open mind about what you might find.
See tuning your emotional processing, and the notion of “keeping emotional-inbox-zero” so problems don’t accumulate and build on each other.
Ty for the feedback, seems fair + useful. I’ve just gone through and added more epistemic signposting + softened the language at various points. Was this the main reason you kept it a personal blogpost?
Also agree. Have now edited the relevant paragraph to read: