this is a technique from my future book on applied rationality. write comments to influence its content and correct something ratio-technique: gamification of failures epistemic status: worked for me on those tasks where there was systematic irritation. now I get anticipation. what problem does the technique solve: allows you to quickly and reversibly obtain a series of pleasant sensations from solving a task with a low probability of success, where without this technique you would have received a series of irritations from unsuccessful attempts Definitions (what I'm looking at) from this article (overloads the brain, the rest of the article is not like this) Pleasure - many neurotransmitters are mostly stimulated in the brain across the entire membrane surface by a bunch of neurotransmitters - dopamine, serotonin, etc. Failure - expectation to experience activation of a specific neural chain in the near future, and it was not activated subsequently Self-deception - creating a neural chain linked to the state of physical world objects and consciously transferring the activation of neural chains in such a way that the coupling of "created connections - object state" either does not exist or exists by a different rule these definitions obviously won't match yours. this is my attempt to formalize down to the cellular level. now you roughly know where I'm looking, and without definitions, you would have had to guess, and as you can see, you would NOT have guessed. always please. what you'll get if you train this technique: conscious ability to farm pleasant sensations from situations where multiple unsuccessful attempts to do something are expected. this mode can be easily turned on and easily turned off. (real life story) I didn't sleep well in the morning, was tired at the end of the day and wanted to go to bed. I come to the apartment, anticipating lying down and watching a series. And it turns out that I forgot