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32 Post author: Academian 19 December 2012 09:42AM

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Comment author: Tenoke 19 December 2012 01:45:05PM 13 points [-]

A somewhat related thing that I do is to read/watch stories with clever/intelligent/rational (or whatever I want to be) characters such as Death Note/HPMOR (I have a bunch of other examples) which both seems to prime me to think a bit like them (or to enter in a mode where I think that my narrative is similar to theirs) and also gives me role models on which I can fall back to in some situations (like in your Naruto example). This has definitely at least partially worked (might be placebo) as I almost always have more motivation on which I act to study/do productive things after watching/reading such a story.

Comment author: [deleted] 23 December 2012 07:07:20PM 1 point [-]

A somewhat related thing that I do is to read/watch stories with clever/intelligent/rational (or whatever I want to be) characters such as Death Note/HPMOR (I have a bunch of other examples) which both seems to prime me to think a bit like them

I think that watching Barney from How I Met Your Mother helped make me feel more confident in interactions with people of the other gender.