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> ..personality-changing frontal cortex exercises Care to give some pointers to this? Sounds mighty interesting.

by achow 4y ago

themodelplumber 4y ago
That's a big topic actually. For one, I did an EEG and a bunch of tasks with a personality researcher, while attending a conference on personality dynamics. In some follow-ups discussing my results, he gave me some suggestions based on what he saw in the data and how it compared to his previous research cases and general research on the brain. To me, the value was in how subjective it was. I wouldn't suggest any particular exercises unless you know something about how you use your own frontal cortex, or even how you don't use it so much. It's also possible that frontal cortex work sounds subjectively interesting but is in effect the wrong approach given one's own background in functionally overusing or overvaluing it, which I've seen happen. To give an example from my experience, personally I generally fit the "sees things coming" thinking style, which indicates both a preference and an attribute, and for which there are lots of descriptors in the personality world. I would usually tend to then "watch those things arriving," as say step 2. Following the meetup and subsequent study though, in a lot of different ways I've taught myself to put a "do something about it" in between those two, in ways I never thought were really useful or even doable before. This is just an example of the type of conscious redirection that can be done. Fighting one's own current levels of perception is definitely on the table too. People generally feel pressure to fight to preserve their preferred ways of doing things. However there are also subconscious changes that happen along the way. For example I learned that I was becoming a new (to me) type of subjective thinker. While great in some ways, putting perception and execution so closely together meant that yet another type of quackery was now on the table. It's weird and scary to have a new idea that people will automatically doubt because it's new, but then also automatically fear because it's so actionable. So, these different problems would come up. But since I was studying the frontal cortex stuff in the first place, at least I could do something about it... Oh and PS, changing your personality arbitrarily can be dangerous and lead to psychological damage; please take care in this, since your current personality is also an energy and mood management system.

> ..personality-changing frontal cortex exercises Care to give some pointers to this? Sounds mighty interesting.

by achow 4y ago

> ..personality-changing frontal cortex exercises Care to give some pointers to this? Sounds mighty interesting.

That's a big topic actually. For one, I did an EEG and a bunch of tasks with a personality researcher, while attending a conference on personality dynamics. In some follow-ups discussing my results, he gave me some suggestions based on what he saw in the data and how it compared to his previous research cases and general research on the brain. To me, the value was in how subjective it was. I wouldn't suggest any particular exercises unless you know something about how you use your own frontal cortex, or even how you don't use it so much. It's also possible that frontal cortex work sounds subjectively interesting but is in effect the wrong approach given one's own background in functionally overusing or overvaluing it, which I've seen happen. To give an example from my experience, personally I generally fit the "sees things coming" thinking style, which indicates both a preference and an attribute, and for which there are lots of descriptors in the personality world. I would usually tend to then "watch those things arriving," as say step 2. Following the meetup and subsequent study though, in a lot of different ways I've taught myself to put a "do something about it" in between those two, in ways I never thought were really useful or even doable before. This is just an example of the type of conscious redirection that can be done. Fighting one's own current levels of perception is definitely on the table too. People generally feel pressure to fight to preserve their preferred ways of doing things. However there are also subconscious changes that happen along the way. For example I learned that I was becoming a new (to me) type of subjective thinker. While great in some ways, putting perception and execution so closely together meant that yet another type of quackery was now on the table. It's weird and scary to have a new idea that people will automatically doubt because it's new, but then also automatically fear because it's so actionable. So, these different problems would come up. But since I was studying the frontal cortex stuff in the first place, at least I could do something about it... Oh and PS, changing your personality arbitrarily can be dangerous and lead to psychological damage; please take care in this, since your current personality is also an energy and mood management system.