lsparrish comments on Boring Advice Repository - Less Wrong

56 Post author: Qiaochu_Yuan 07 March 2013 04:33AM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (557)

You are viewing a single comment's thread.

Comment author: lsparrish 08 March 2013 08:30:59PM 24 points [-]

Watch your internal monologue for two patterns: Hero stories where you are in the process of solving problems, and victim stories where you are incapable of solving problems. Attempt to reinterpret victimization stories into as-yet-unresolved heroic stories.