- Ok to do until you feel sated, like you’re ready to move onto something else. Constant course corrections make this not a big deal.
”Won’t it just make me play video games all the time?”
- “If I just do what I want all the time, won’t it just make me lazy, make me play video games all the time, for example?”
- Well, if it feels genuinely good to play video games, then go ahead. But I’m sure that after an hour or 5, it will start to feel bad, at which point you’ll notice this, and you can pause, and see what you’d rather do
- There’s no risk of getting stuck - you will always have access to this sense-data of “transparently good/correct vs grind-y and bad”
- This was a key insight for me - you will always have access to this, and it’s all you need to make the next best choice