Kingreaper comments on Ureshiku Naritai - Less Wrong

119 Post author: Alicorn 08 April 2010 08:08PM

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Comment author: Yvain 09 April 2010 07:19:10PM 4 points [-]

Thanks; I've bookmarked this and am going to try something like it. But I'm probably greedier than you are, so I've got to ask - do you think you could use the same techniques you used to raise your set point from 2 to 5, to raise your set point from 5 to 8?

Comment author: Kingreaper 25 November 2010 07:07:40PM 1 point [-]

I get the impression that the technique is most effective at moving to 5, or maybe 5.5/6 also.

Not because 5 is a particular level of happiness, but because it's not. Part of the trick is likely in the labeling of your preferred position AS 5, and thereby making it the "default" state.