One - very pricey, only to be used if other methods don't work AND it's causing you large problems - way to lessen these is to make yourself comfortable with the idea of explicitly not doing the thing you're motivated to avoid, so that you at least get a known unknown instead of an unknown unknown.
Today's post, Motivated Stopping and Motivated Continuation was originally published on 28 October 2007. A summary (taken from the LW wiki):
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