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It's a waste of time at best, and inducing psychosis at worst. (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.)
You know what it's called when you hear voices giving you "advice"? Paranoid schizophrenia. Outright visual hallucinations?
What's next, using magic mushrooms to speed the process? Yes, you can probably teach yourself to become actually insane, but why would you?
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.