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Stabilizer comments on Open thread, January 25- February 1 - Less Wrong Discussion

8 Post author: NancyLebovitz 25 January 2014 02:52PM

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Comment author: Stabilizer 26 January 2014 05:57:30PM 1 point [-]

That's basically what I meant. The move is to notice the anger, fear or disgust and then realize that this emotion isn't useful and can be actively detrimental. Then consciously try to switch to curiosity.

Of course, I couldn't condense the full messiness of reality into a pithy saying.