Find a nonrational aspect of your nature that is hindering you right now.
Determine privately to fix it.
Set a short deadline. Do the necessary work.
Write it up on LW at the deadline. Whether or not it worked.
I would add a step 1.5 or 2.5 -- define in advance what criteria you will use to determine "whether or not it worked". Ideally, select criteria that are based on your automatic responses in the relevant context, rather than what you can do about the problem when you're focused and paying attention.
Otherwise, you run an extremely high risk of false-positive "success" reports. (And I speak from experience.)
Yes, totally agreed. Be precise, define a goal that's both reachable and testable.
"Fix the automatic response" is an interesting criterion. Am I right you're saying "it doesn't count if you can only do it with a special effort?" That's an interestingly subtle point. The improvement has to be pervasive in your life. It agrees with my preference for a private intent - you can't always rely on a gun to your head to make you work at peak ability.
But contrariwise, it's true that the way you learn stuff in general is to do it many many times ...
The main danger for LW is that it could become rationalist-porn for daydreamers.
I suggest a pattern of counterattack:
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(This used to be a comment, here.)Find a nonrational aspect of your nature that is hindering you right now.
Determine privately to fix it.
Set a short deadline. Do the necessary work.
Write it up on LW at the deadline. Whether or not it worked.