I agree that going meta-contrarian isn’t always enough to implement advice. There’ll be more to come about debugging internal aversions and more systematic ways to build up habits.
One thing that is in the works is a sort of “ladder of interventions” of increasingly powerful ways to compel yourself to get something done. I think the attitude this ladder embodies is not good “form”, in that it probably leads to suboptimal attitudes, but it’s what I often end up doing in practice. (Going up the ladder, one thing at a time, until I feel like doing the thing.)
I agree that going meta-contrarian isn’t always enough to implement advice. There’ll be more to come about debugging internal aversions and more systematic ways to build up habits.
One thing that is in the works is a sort of “ladder of interventions” of increasingly powerful ways to compel yourself to get something done. I think the attitude this ladder embodies is not good “form”, in that it probably leads to suboptimal attitudes, but it’s what I often end up doing in practice. (Going up the ladder, one thing at a time, until I feel like doing the thing.)