one of the worst things rationality did to me (or, you could say, i did to myself using rationality, idk) was teach me to use the part of my mind i had developed to do homework to run my entire life
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now i was very good at doing homework so this wasn’t a totally ridiculous thing to try, but it turned out i needed the coercive structure of school to provide the extrinsic motivation to make the whole machine work and without that fuel it mostly sputtered. hence “akrasia”
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it do be like this sometimes
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Hello to everyone else who was great at creating things and producing good work within fear-based coercive education and now has to learn motivation and discipline from scratch in their own, new, joy-based paradigm
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