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How do you do an ideological/bullshit beliefs reset?
I have certain beliefs left over from my childhood and teenage years that are objectively wrong or misguided, and I know they are as much when I think about them rationally for often as literally as 2 seconds but this takes up bandwidth.
These are not political or philosophical but mundane heuristics and rationalizations. Following is a made-up example so please don't offer me advice on this, but it captures the spirit.
Let's say as a kid spending 5 units of currency bill was a substantial spend. It was a significant part of my allowance. Now as an adult, that 5 unit bill still hurts to spend.
The above is not the end of the world. But it's annoying.
The fact that you rationally recognize such beliefs to be maladaptive is more progress than most make.
I'm not aware of any empirically validated strategy, but my advice would be to train yourself to consider specific situations as triggers, such that whenever you encounter them you jolt and remember to think things through. Eventually it should become engrained through force of habit.
If you're feeling experimental, well there's LSD, but loosening one's priors is not universally a good thing.
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