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OMG!
I feel really good about myself and my wife, now.
Fifteen years ago, we bought a house with a yard in which we planted lots of greenery (check); not stretching our budget (check); no pool or other frippery (check); we left the construction to the oversight of others rather than obsessing over every fireplace and window (check); and it is in a middle-class neighborhood in an otherwise working-class village (check). The commute is not short, however (fail).
My life should be bliss!
Seriously, does rationality training include congratulating yourself for lack of certain biases? Thanks for the post!
If you never congratulate yourself for thinking correctly, but you sometimes punish yourself for thinking incorrectly, you are effectively conditioning yourself against thinking. Which would be a bad thing.
(Something similar to this was mentioned at the Rationality Minicamp.)