Here’s a separate error that I’ve made many times: People believe that their intellectual knowledge of the world’s problems causes them to act a certain way, when in reality they act that way because of their mood.
I should elaborate the model a little: I think it’s common to be have your mood influenced by the difficulty of problems (I’ve experienced that a lot), but it doesn’t need to be, and this is usually a result of not respecting the problems enough to acknowledge that every small step towards solving them counts for a lot, or not having enough faith that you’ll be able to continue making progress, or believing too much that you are trapped on a particular course.
Sometimes this is true! In which case I recommend contemplating “Detach the grim-o-meter.”
Here’s a separate error that I’ve made many times: People believe that their intellectual knowledge of the world’s problems causes them to act a certain way, when in reality they act that way because of their mood.
I should elaborate the model a little: I think it’s common to be have your mood influenced by the difficulty of problems (I’ve experienced that a lot), but it doesn’t need to be, and this is usually a result of not respecting the problems enough to acknowledge that every small step towards solving them counts for a lot, or not having enough faith that you’ll be able to continue making progress, or believing too much that you are trapped on a particular course.