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What's the point of thinking you're going to fail, unless you're rationally considering giving up? If you're feeling down but aren't going to give up, then there's little benefit to feeling down and more of a cost because of its impact on motivation. Maybe people should try to feel positive except whenever something happens to make them stop and consider if they should quit. If they decide not to quit, they should make an effort to go back to feeling bullish.
These are good ideas, but in my experience I can't always just make myself feel whatever emotion I want to feel. The nice thing about the procrastination equation is that it (supposedly) gives you a window in to how your internal emotional mechanics work and some ideas for influencing them.
Although yeah, "this emotion isn't useful" can actually be a somewhat decent emotion modulator.
If I'm rationally considering also investing in a parachute while I'm learning to fly. Or maybe a safety net while I'm doing the trapeze.
Haha I guess when you're already committed to doing some course you can't swerve from, you can't be afraid or even consider the possibility of failure or you're more likely to plummet to your doom (in the trapeze case. Maybe in the sky diving case you're already falling so you can try to aim towards some water and hope to just break your legs or something).