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Gordon Wong's avatar

I'm far from the poster child for self control but maybe that's part of the issue. Self control is an impossible battle given all the hidden forces you called out. What helps me a little is trying harness some of those hidden forces with framing. An appeal to the secret gods so to speak. Couple questions:

Do I want to be happy or do I want to be right?

-don't pick a fight over coding format if you want to be happy.

How do I want to feel tomorrow, as opposed to a minute?

-want to have a good day snowboarding tomorrow? Time to switch from beer to water

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Robert Yi 🐳's avatar

You've gotten to something very interesting. Choice & time scale are certainly two important parameters to play with in the framing -- I wonder what else there is!

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