My greatest weakness as a writer is that I absolutely hate editing my own work. I'm a perfectly good copy-editor on other people's work, but I really can't bring myself to do much of it on my own.
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The Fully General System (https://www.drmaciver.com/2019/05/how-to-do-hard-things/ …) only works if you can actually bring yourself to do the work.
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then the system isn't fully general, it's missing steps for what to do with emotions!
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Step 1: Find something that is like the activity that you experience difficult emotions with but you do not find aversive. Step 2: Try making the non-aversive thing like the aversive thing in one way, and practice that until it's no longer aversive...
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(I kid, I don't think that actually works very well). In general yeah the name is somewhat tongue in cheek. The system only promises that if you can follow it then it will produce good results but it doesn't promise that you can follow it and you usually get stuck at some point.
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