pjeby comments on How habits work and how you may control them - Less Wrong
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Ironically, this doesn't work the same way for self-talk punishment. It's still useless, but for some reason it doesn't train down the self-punishment, it just fails to do anything about what you're punishing.
When I'm doing self-talk punishment, it really doesn't feel like I'm punishing myself, but rather berating some other part of my brain that did the wrong thing. Now that I tried the physical punishment, it feels like I'm punishing myself for something that my true identity didn't do.