sketerpot comments on Useful maxims - Less Wrong

26 Post author: ciphergoth 11 July 2012 11:56AM

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Comment author: RomeoStevens 11 July 2012 07:27:02PM 5 points [-]

this seems like a rule for permanently stifling the unadventurous.

Comment author: sketerpot 12 July 2012 05:19:02AM 5 points [-]

Not necessarily! If you work out ahead of time what your reasonable limits are, this can serve as mental license to stop worrying and go right up to those limits -- and no one said you had to set them cautiously.

This has been one of my most effective tricks for having fun doing things that are kind of scary.