Honestly, I've found the single hardest part of overcoming my damage is simply finding something that actually motivates me: For the majority of my life, even now, irrationality is sufficiently successful that I have no reason to "correct" it. I happen to have a strong investment in the identity of "rational", which gave me enough of a push to start reading this site, but I could still easily make excuses as to why I wasn't applying it. It wasn't until I found Something To Protect in my life that I started really taking this stuff seriously and began making an effort to "win" instead of merely being "right".

Once I had that motivation, I found this site to be incredibly helpful: a number of LW posts have explicitly helped me bridge gaps between "a strong analytical mind" and "a very damaged map of reality". There's still a LOT I'm working on, and I've been reading here for at least half a year, so it's hardly an instant fix. It requires a lot of effort - and that's why a good motivation is essential. I've found some posts instantly shift a huge chunk of my map in to a better alignment, and other posts suddenly pop up 3 months later and make me realize I've been doing things wrong my entire life.