found more than once that when i find smth that might really help (oh this paper is precisely about the problem i've been having!) i postpone engaging with it... almsot as if had grown accustomed to the mode of 'there being a problem' and face resistance to moving on from it...
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the old CFARians used to say "it's okay for your problems to be solvable"
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in the early days CFAR was like "oh we will just come up with and iterate on techniques and then give the best techniques to people this is going to be great"
and then we ran into load-bearing problems and meta-problems and feelings about problems and feelings about techniques
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can you elaborate on what some of these problems were? i am very curious
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i don't remember detailed examples off the top of my head but the structure that made them hard to deal with was pretty similar across examples: problems that felt bad to think about so you never thought about them, techniques that felt bad to use so you never used them
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oof
yeah i’ve had a few of those
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this is the background i was coming from when i started learning about ways to work with bad feelings directly! friggin lifesaver
how far have you gotten with that effort? do you think you now have the tools to make meaningful progress on these kinds of issues and teach others how to do so?
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idk i've been a lot more pessimistic about this in the last two months than i was for most of the past year. i think i am an idiot who knows very little but i may *still* be overqualified idk
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