Instrumental rationality applied to oneself.

A lot to do with luminosity and tsuyoku naritai. Kind of inspired by Alicorn's post on polyhacking, since I think a similar level of self-modification was involved.

There are people (of great intellect, even) who go on for years without trying to consciously optimize their situation. I've even been one of them ("this is good enough for now - why stress?").

If I believe thinking about things rationally helps, and I have a problem, and I've always got something else I'd rather be doing than to analyze the problem or plot its solution, what gives?