(Waste of time because the "tulpa" - your hallucination - has access to the same data repository you use, and doesn't run on a different frontal cortex. You can teach yourself the right habits without also teaching yourself to become mentally ill.)

Source?

I mean, there are, as you say, obvious "right habits" analogs of this that get results - which would seem to invalidate the first quoted sentence - but I don't see why pushing it "further" couldn't possibly generate better results.