One possible interpretation: sometimes we feel like “I don’t like what I’ve been doing, but there’s no point changing my behavior now. I already have the stain on my record. Everybody already sees me as bad. What’s the point?”
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If you ritually set your Sin Score back to zero once a year, you have an opportunity to feel like it’s worth trying again.
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That’s why things like offering support to ICE officers quitting their jobs is valuable. It is objectively better to have a job doing injustice for 9 years than for 10 years. But it sure doesn’t feel that way.
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Incremental improvement is so counterintuitive. It doesn’t feel like doing *slightly* better can possibly matter. I feel hopeless thinking about all my screw-ups.
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I used to be a straight-A student. I lived for perfect scores. I sure as hell don’t have a “4.0” at life now.
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But if all that matters is doing better on the margin, doing a yearly reset isn’t lying, it’s just a psychological hack. We get to *feel* like we can start fresh, because that makes it easier to *actually* make incremental improvements.
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Making no unforced errors, I think. Always behaving optimally given your state of knowledge and opportunities.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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It's cancellation of a debt - your credit score isn't magically healed, people can still make *predictions* based on evidence - but there's no claim on *enforcement* anymore.
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but that really doesn't work unless they *were* enforcing some kind of penalty to begin with. It's not a definition that can apply to things like "falling short of your goals" or "doing things that cause people to like you less."
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