unless there's some kind of bootstrapping dynamic that I don't see right now.
I suspect there might well be. Developing a skill, one often starts with simple, achievable exercises.
Edit: I mean in general, not you personally, who I expect would be rather more accomplished than most people. Nancy's comment rings true with me.
I'd suspect getting into the habit of dealing with small scale short term irrationalities would act as a bootstrapping dynamic of sorts. Especially if one goes from there to asking "in what way right now is my current behavior irrational when taking into account my longer term goals?"
But yes, I think I will indeed be trying this and perhaps seeking to form such a habit.
At today's meetup in Tortuga, we were supposed to discuss something we're currently being irrational about. In retrospect I could probably have done better than the item I picked (for example, it now occurs to me that I'm probably currently being irrational about bedtimes and sleep-cycle stuff)...
But the key point is that while straining my brain to think of something I was currently being irrational about, but hadn't fixed yet, I noticed myself being irrational in small ways too.
For example, I was sitting on the floor in a way that was beginning to strain my left thigh, but wasn't standing up and finding a chair...
So I stood up and found a chair.
I think it might be a valuable exercise to spend an hour practicing rationalist mindfulness, constantly asking yourself, "What am I currently doing that is not rational?" as though you had to find something to fulfill your obligation to an LW meetup.