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waldo's avatar

actually, the only book I brought with me to the bay area was "The courage to be disliked". I think inverted causality is a useful frame to avoid the psychoanalytic doom spiral. I also like the idea that the self is constructed instrumentally by the conscious mind, which this post sort of hints at too.

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louis030195's avatar

Digging deep into internal issues can be insightful, but I've found that a radically optimistic approach works wonders. Start my day by saying, "I am happy, great, and confident," 50 times and that's like a 10x coffee

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