http://enthusiasm.cozy.org/archives/2006/10/control-of-appetite Ben Hyde Wed, 17 Mar 2010 02:39:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://enthusiasm.cozy.org/archives/2006/10/control-of-appetite/comment-page-1#comment-2013 Ascription is an Anathema to any Enthusiasm › Raising the Stakes Sun, 03 May 2009 13:40:26 +0000 http://enthusiasm.cozy.org/archives/2006/10/control-of-appetite/#comment-2013 [...] often fail. This was written by bhyde. Posted on Saturday, May 2, 2009, at 4:36 am. Filed under [...] [...] often fail. This was written by bhyde. Posted on Saturday, May 2, 2009, at 4:36 am. Filed under [...]

]]> http://enthusiasm.cozy.org/archives/2006/10/control-of-appetite/comment-page-1#comment-1982 Ascription is an Anathema to any Enthusiasm › Will Power Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:31:39 +0000 http://enthusiasm.cozy.org/archives/2006/10/control-of-appetite/#comment-1982 [...] This posting explains how tremendously overvalue temptations that are closer v.s. further away; and how this annoys us.  Experiments show it annoys even pigeons.  Control of Appetite [...] [...] This posting explains how tremendously overvalue temptations that are closer v.s. further away; and how this annoys us.  Experiments show it annoys even pigeons.  Control of Appetite [...]

]]> http://enthusiasm.cozy.org/archives/2006/10/control-of-appetite/comment-page-1#comment-1491 Ascription is an Anathema to any Enthusiasm › Preparation of Emotion Sun, 08 Mar 2009 01:39:36 +0000 http://enthusiasm.cozy.org/archives/2006/10/control-of-appetite/#comment-1491 [...] continue to be fascinated by Ainslie’s Breakdown of Will; which argues that the core challenge of our existence is a struggle between our various [...] [...] continue to be fascinated by Ainslie’s Breakdown of Will; which argues that the core challenge of our existence is a struggle between our various [...]

]]> http://enthusiasm.cozy.org/archives/2006/10/control-of-appetite/comment-page-1#comment-1462 Ascription is an Anathema to any Enthusiasm › Secret of Productivity Wed, 04 Mar 2009 01:38:17 +0000 http://enthusiasm.cozy.org/archives/2006/10/control-of-appetite/#comment-1462 [...] since reading Ainslie’s “Breakdown of Will” I’ve be thinking and reading a lot about what might be called self management. [...] [...] since reading Ainslie’s “Breakdown of Will” I’ve be thinking and reading a lot about what might be called self management. [...]

]]> http://enthusiasm.cozy.org/archives/2006/10/control-of-appetite/comment-page-1#comment-858 Ascription is an Anathema to any Enthusiasm » Blog Archive » Secret of Productivity Wed, 19 Dec 2007 15:20:23 +0000 http://enthusiasm.cozy.org/archives/2006/10/control-of-appetite/#comment-858 [...] Every since reading Anisle’s “Breakdown of Will” I’ve be thinking and reading a lot about what might be called self management. I’m currenly reading “Ethics, Law and the Exercise of Self-Command.” There is a delightful quote in this essay: Social controls play a role; the Times Literary Supplement for January 22, 1982, contained a splendid example, a review article by George Steiner on the life and work of the Hungarian radical Georg Lukacs. “When I first called on him, in the winter of 1957-8, in a house still pockmarked with shellbursts and grenade spliters, I stood speechless before the armada of his printed works, as it crowded the bookshelves. Lukacs seized on my puerile wonder and blazed out of his chair in a motion at once vulnerable and amused: ‘You want to know how one gets work done? It’s easy. House arrest, Steiner, house arrest!’” [...] [...] Every since reading Anisle’s “Breakdown of Will” I’ve be thinking and reading a lot about what might be called self management. I’m currenly reading “Ethics, Law and the Exercise of Self-Command.” There is a delightful quote in this essay: Social controls play a role; the Times Literary Supplement for January 22, 1982, contained a splendid example, a review article by George Steiner on the life and work of the Hungarian radical Georg Lukacs. “When I first called on him, in the winter of 1957-8, in a house still pockmarked with shellbursts and grenade spliters, I stood speechless before the armada of his printed works, as it crowded the bookshelves. Lukacs seized on my puerile wonder and blazed out of his chair in a motion at once vulnerable and amused: ‘You want to know how one gets work done? It’s easy. House arrest, Steiner, house arrest!’” [...]

]]> http://enthusiasm.cozy.org/archives/2006/10/control-of-appetite/comment-page-1#comment-857 Ascription is an Anathema to any Enthusiasm » Blog Archive » Preparation of Emotion Wed, 19 Dec 2007 15:05:05 +0000 http://enthusiasm.cozy.org/archives/2006/10/control-of-appetite/#comment-857 [...] I continue to be fascinated by Ainslie’s Breakdown of Will; which argues that the core challenge of our existence is a struggle between our various preferences over time. Our longterm and near-term preferences are forever churning to create inconsistencies of behavior that are quite irrational.  We tackle this by attempting to strike bargains between our various preferences.  He calls this intertemporal bargaining.  I love this idea that the inside of our head is like disputatious committee meeting; i.e. it’s a governance problem. Ainslie, et. al. have found only a very few tactics for the problem. Of which I find preparation of emotion fascinatingly perverse.  It uses puts our nominally irrational self to work to achieve improved rationality. Since we know we can not trust ourselves to stick to our earlier agreements we roll up a bundle of emotion to deploy at the moment the temptation arises to break our earlier agreement. [...] [...] I continue to be fascinated by Ainslie’s Breakdown of Will; which argues that the core challenge of our existence is a struggle between our various preferences over time. Our longterm and near-term preferences are forever churning to create inconsistencies of behavior that are quite irrational.  We tackle this by attempting to strike bargains between our various preferences.  He calls this intertemporal bargaining.  I love this idea that the inside of our head is like disputatious committee meeting; i.e. it’s a governance problem. Ainslie, et. al. have found only a very few tactics for the problem. Of which I find preparation of emotion fascinatingly perverse.  It uses puts our nominally irrational self to work to achieve improved rationality. Since we know we can not trust ourselves to stick to our earlier agreements we roll up a bundle of emotion to deploy at the moment the temptation arises to break our earlier agreement. [...]

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