jsalvatier comments on Help! All this new found rationality and room for improvement is causing me to burn out - Less Wrong

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Comment author: jsalvatier 15 August 2011 02:39:15PM 14 points [-]

One thing to keep in mind is that you have limited mental resources and can really only do a couple things effectively at a time. Thus you are hardly a bad person for concentrating on a couple of areas at once and ignoring other areas as they are for the time being.

To figure out what you want to concentrate on, you might sit down with someone make a list of all the different things you could try, and figure out which 1-3 seem the most promising and then make a plan to try those. Then, after an appropriate length of time you revisit the issue and find a couple more things to work on.

Comment author: tetsuo55 17 August 2011 05:45:01AM 0 points [-]

This makes a lot of sense, but my mind cannot accept this compromise for some reason...

Comment author: jsalvatier 17 August 2011 01:48:47PM 0 points [-]

Hmm, ok, well perhaps you have a different stumbling block.