army1987 comments on Rationality Quotes June 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 03 June 2012 07:24:24PM *  1 point [-]

I'm not sure it would work for me, knowing that (e.g.) setting my watch five minutes early doesn't work to make me hurry up more even though it does work for many people I know.

On the other hand, I can trigger the impostor syndrome or similar paranoid thoughts in myself by muling over certain memories and letting the availability heuristic make them have much more weight than they should.