But on the other hand, the practice does change me. It's logically impossible that imposing said practices on someone else would magically fail to change them.
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Intellectual influences are big a factor of one’s intelligence. Others include processing speed (iq), reasoning ability (iq), expertise (brain size and abstraction level), cognitive stack (thinking vs feeling), ...
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Is “philosophical practice” an cultural/intellectual influence? Asilentsky and Taleb also use the words generating principles and intellectual lineage
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E.g. the stoic idea of confronting bad outcomes in advance to get used to them, so when they actually happen it's not upsetting.
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How did you get that habit? (Btw I know I’m going off topic but I love the Seneca series on my site, which I’m still editing and improving to this day, and obviously mentions that practice)
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(“It is better to pursue the straight course and eventually reach the destination where the pleasant and the honorable finally become the same.” So much of this. I imagine high pain tolerance and lack of desire leads to stoicism.)
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I somehow absorbed stoic practices by reading a bunch of magazine journalism.
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I jacked up my physical pain tolerance using a placebo. As for emotional pain tolerance, it's the opposite: stoicism / cognitive therapy lead to emotional pain tolerance and lack of desire.
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How do you do that with a placebo? Placebos only work because you don't know you are taking them.
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Placebos work because you believe they work. I believe I can placebo myself, therefore I can.
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I can't will myself to believe something
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It's a really good skill to have. But this one shouldn't need it. Admittedly the recursion is a bit mind-bending.
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