ThisSpaceAvailable comments on Shoulds can be changed to Cans - Less Wrong

2 Post author: Stabilizer 15 March 2014 09:05AM

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Comment author: ThisSpaceAvailable 17 March 2014 07:18:20AM 0 points [-]

While I can see the appeal of this, on the other hand I'm a bit leery about expending mental effort to suppress one's emotions. The central question is whether diverting your attention from a particular feeling trains your mind to actually not have that feeling, or whether it just reduces self-awareness and prevents one from dealing with that feeling. Getting the wrong answer to that question can result in rather bad outcomes.