Alicorn comments on Open Thread June 2010, Part 4 - Less Wrong

5 Post author: Will_Newsome 19 June 2010 04:34AM

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Comment author: Alicorn 20 June 2010 05:17:38AM *  6 points [-]

When I'm sad about something in my life, I usually can make myself feel much better by simply saying, in a sentence, why I'm sad.

Explicitly acknowledging emotions as things with causes is a huge chunk of managing them deliberately. (I have a post in the works on this, but I'm not sure when I'll pull it together.)

Comment author: Will_Newsome 20 June 2010 07:14:03AM *  0 points [-]

Lots of references to the CBT literature would be nice... no need to reinvent the wheel; CBT has a lot of useful things to say about NATs, and strategies to take care of them. (Then again this applies mostly to negative emotions, and deliberately managing positive emotions seems like a cool thing to do too.) That said, more instrumental rationality posts would be great.

Comment author: CronoDAS 21 June 2010 09:08:45PM 0 points [-]

What does NAT stand for?