Yes, I find trying to make that part less dominant most promising here. If it secretly is still dominant while you pretend engaging in other things for their own sake, you will get this “trick” flavour.
For me, this part only ended up less dominant once it could fully comprehend that it wasn’t leading to good places even by its own light. (I would go: “See, optimiser-Ronja, we have followed your lead for a while now, and we’ve ended up absolutely depressed and unable to do anything at all. I know you don’t want that either. So, please, let go of your grip for a while as we figure out other approaches.”)
This dialogue with my optimizer-self, showing it evidence that it was undermining its own values by ignoring my other values, was very helpful for me too.
Yes, I find trying to make that part less dominant most promising here. If it secretly is still dominant while you pretend engaging in other things for their own sake, you will get this “trick” flavour.
For me, this part only ended up less dominant once it could fully comprehend that it wasn’t leading to good places even by its own light. (I would go: “See, optimiser-Ronja, we have followed your lead for a while now, and we’ve ended up absolutely depressed and unable to do anything at all. I know you don’t want that either. So, please, let go of your grip for a while as we figure out other approaches.”)
This dialogue with my optimizer-self, showing it evidence that it was undermining its own values by ignoring my other values, was very helpful for me too.