Does anyone here think they're particularly good at introspection or modeling themselves, or have a method for training up these skills? It seems like it would be really useful to understand more about the true causes of my behavior, so I can figure out what conditions lead to me being good and what conditions lead to me behaving poorly, and then deliberately set up good conditions. But whenever I try to analyze my behavior, I just hit a brick wall---it all just feels like I chose to do what I did out of my magical free will. Which doesn't explain anything.

If you know what you want, and then you choose actions that will help you get it, then that's simple enough to analyze: you're just rational, that's all. But when you would swear with all your heart that you want some simple thing, but are continually breaking down and acting dysfunctionally---well, clearly something has gone horribly wrong with your brain, and you should figure out the problem and fix it. But if you can't tell what's wrong because your decision algorithm is utterly opaque, then what do you do?