i think the thing where you catch a teen smoking and you make them smoke an entire pack until they get sick of it has a lot to offer as a role model for behavior change
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that is, if you want to stop doing something, instead of attempting to force yourself to stop doing it, try forcing yourself to do much more of it
i sort of tweeted about this before but in different words and less directly
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i think i was undervaluing boredom as a force for change. run the existing strategy into the ground enough that you get bored of it and after the boredom space opens up for something else. repeatedly experiencing the strategy helps me notice how dead vs. alive it feels
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the aro meditation course has a funny meditation exercise that goes "try to think continuously with no gaps for 20 minutes" which is very much in the same vein
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aw yeah that's what i'm talkin bout
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you can actually speedrun having ~1,000 fights with people about all of the topics you like to fight about. you can do this in about 2-3 years or so. get it out of your system in your late teens, early 20s, realize it's incredibly unproductive, and then start being strategic
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oh hadn't made that connection but yeah ish!
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This is me with insomnia… don’t fight it and eventually it will take care of itself. An all nighter isnt the end of the world
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I once bought our house 300 slim Jim's and since then nobody ever ate them ever again
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feels related
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10/ After I told narrator it could do *anything it wanted* in the background, it went off the wall:
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VERY LOUDLY singing
proclaiming itself the king of the mind and the coolest mind-part
for HOURS
The next day, quiet.
Occasional "puffs" of words, but mostly no words at all.
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