Will_Sawin comments on Suffering as attention-allocational conflict - Less Wrong
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It may not work if you are aware that you are tricking yourself like that but then again it also may work.
That is certainly a very interesting idea.
You're not fooling yourself, you're fooling a small malfunctioning part of your brain. The technique only works if you honestly believe that having the technique on average really IS a good idea and do so in a specific, rigid way.