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What does your inner Quirrellmort tell you?
Has your internal model of the most competent person you can imagine ever given you an insight you wouldn't have thought of with more traditional methods?
Do you have more than one such useful sub-personality?
Does your main mode of thinking bring anything to the table that your useful mental models of others don't? If so, what?
He mostly tells me to kill annoying people.
No, but I'm working on them. I've found my inner Hufflepuff to be particularly helpful in actually getting things done.
Incidentally, is there a name for the "sub-personality technique?"
'Deliberately induced dissociative identity disorder'?
'Cultivation of tulpas'?
'Acting'?
Internal Family Systems is the analogous therapy technique, I think.
What would Jesus do?
Adopting a hero.
Short Duration Personal Saviour.
Method acting.
This already refers to a similar, but much dicier, technique.