At this point, you consider your new plan, and again ask yourself: does this feel right? Is this motivating? Are there any slight pangs of regret about giving up my old behavior? If you still don’t want to shift your behavior, chances are that you still have some motive for doing this thing that you have missed, and the feelings of productivity and relaxation aren’t quite enough to cover it. In that case, go back to the step of listing motives.

So I've noticed that sometimes I will be worried about something that my System 2 doesn't think is that much of a problem. In the spirit of listening to my System 1, I will do a lot of research on the thing I'm worried about and try to figure out if I should actually change my behavior in response. Even when my research suggests that I don't need to be worried, however, it doesn't seem like System 1 is put at ease. If anything, it seems like researching and thinking about the issue made my worry more salient.