Thread by @visakanv

this is an elegant way to talk about the feedback problem that alan watts loved to riff about

how do you trust yourself if you don't trust yourself?

how do you fix a broken system when the "fixing tool" is itself broken? etc

https://twitter.com/MattTheBrand/status/1330929648574849026

yeah this rhymes with what worked for me, doing tonnes of introspective journaling. few things are absolutely 0 or 100, but if you ramble a lot, really fast, you'll notice that some things feel relatively more or less correct than others

https://twitter.com/jamiemchale/status/1331562911920173056

here's a game you can try:

1. make a list of your feelings as quickly as you can. write down wrong feelings even

2. sort them in order of "most to least correct". this order can be wrong too. do it fast

3. make 100 of these lists and compare them to each other

over time, this process can help you progressively gets better and better at approximating the "truth" of your inner state. it looks and feels quite like this:

https://twitter.com/seanwes/status/750343539964321792

vividness from fervor and enthusiasm. naturalness and spontaneity coming from volumes of practice. the thing IME is to really go as fast as you can and not let your internal editor raise questions prematurely

https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1155754096487358472

the issue for a lot of people is a sort of catastrophic fatalism, this idea that everything has to be correct or it's all terrible. you can get marginally better a little bit every day.

if I were the therapist in the first QT I'd probably go with "tell me more about that"

if you become really prolific, you eventually cross thresholds where you fail to recognize yourself, and your past work, and you feel like a different person. then you can examine "your" issues as you would examine someone else's.

https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1076194861798191104