army1987 comments on Typical Mind and Politics - Less Wrong

46 Post author: Yvain 12 June 2009 12:28PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 08 December 2013 12:37:45PM 1 point [-]

I have minimal aversion to monetary loss², but wasting time makes me angry.

2) Actually, it's more complicated than this, because I agonize over spending money when shopping.

Exactly the same happens to me!

Yesterday, I overcame this by deciding which amount of money to spend before entering the store, and once inside I would only be deciding how to spend that amount (as though I had been given a gift card, though this analogy didn't occur to me yesterday).