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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 25 June 2010 11:23:26AM 1 point [-]

But if rewarding oneself for successfully focusing conscious attention on self-deception, over time, inevitably makes one aware primarily of only the surface manifestations of self-deception, then attempting to increase one's focus on self-deception is largely futile. I really don't know what to suggest, but I urgently want a strategy.

Tentative suggestion: Aim for self-reward for increased awareness and checking for truth, not for any particular finding.

Comment author: MichaelVassar 25 June 2010 02:38:52PM 1 point [-]

Hell yeah.
And if you can fully pull That One off, you are now non-attached... a Bodhisattva.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 25 June 2010 02:45:48PM 0 points [-]

Fortunately, even partial success is very useful.

I suppose that what I offered was a meta-strategy, and getting it down to strategy and tactics is the hard part.

And "self-reward" has its own problems, of course.

Comment author: xamdam 12 July 2010 04:33:52PM 0 points [-]

And "self-reward" has its own problems, of course.

'Hell yeah' as Michael would put it. Did you have any concrete strategies of self-rewarding that worked at all?

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