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I don't think many feelings caused by rationality stuff directly, but when I e.g. feel satisfied about a good result I have achieved, some of it propagates back to feeling satisfied with my progress in rationality. Is this what you mean? Can you clarify your question?
It's good that it seems like that, because that's precisely the part I was trying to describe.
See my response to Lumifer's comment.
No, I got that; I want to know, rather, how do you know whether you feeling something you associate with increasing rationality exactly in the subset of cases where you can be said to act rationally.
It should be testable, probably, with some kind of mood-tracking device (smart watch? Sorry, don't know a thing about it.)
If I understand your question correctly, I don't know that and I don't think I could know it. What I wrote is about how it generally feels and this is definitely not concrete enough to guide me in rationality.
We've had enough historical cases of people following what feels right and ending up believing stuff willy nilly.
The only answer is, I guess, you just don't depend on this stuff to guide you, ever. I treat it like a curious post facto observation, not a rationality technique of any kind.
BTW, I'm a sort of a maniac of recording high quality data about my moods/feelings/energy etc. in daily life and doing statistics on them. I found I can get a lot of value out of it, but probably not in the sense you mean. I'll write about it some time.