Antisuji comments on Outward Change Drives Inward Change - Less Wrong

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Comment author: pjeby 15 May 2009 04:31:34PM 0 points [-]

A one-time act of changing your surroundings, physically going somewhere or rearranging stuff, does influence your behavior a lot

Indeed, I reorganized my office a bit this week so that I can easily clear my desk off onto the shelves behind me, and the mood/attitude impact of having a regularly clean desk is noticeable.

However...

Viewing your brain as a complete computer that you ought to modify from inside is an unnecessarily hard approach.

Some things are easier to change from the inside than the outside, though. For example, if you have an aversion to something that you actually need to do, it's probably easier to get rid of the aversion than to get rid of the need to do it.

Comment author: Antisuji 15 May 2009 05:14:43PM 0 points [-]

For example, if you have an aversion to something that you actually need to do, it's probably easier to get rid of the aversion than to get rid of the need to do it.

Also, the thing you have an aversion to might be something you have to do a lot, so if you do something about the aversion you're making future iterations easier. Of course, if you can remove multiple future needs all at once that might be even better.

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