I haven't gotten deep into the background ideas you've written around eristics so apologies if you elaborate elsewhere.
I think what's surprising about the personality change you describe is it's speed and severity (you wrote on twitter about how everyone who knows you clearly notice it). In therapy theories there seems to be a lot of different frameworks grasping at similar things. An excessive biased inner critic I've seen described "negative self-talk", or "negative automatic thoughts", framed as either habitual or grounded in beliefs/schemas. Seeing that is usually very valuable of course, but often realizing the pattern ("Wow, my inner critic does not shut up no matter what happens. There's no discriminant validity here.") is usually only the first step to becoming more nuanced. People often need to re-evaluate event after event after event until they finally chip it down to something more balanced. At least that's my view. So what's interesting to me is how this happened so rapidly and (if I understood correctly) mostly from gaining insight into what type of person you are. Like why does some insights for some people appear to also change peoples thought/emotional-patterns while at other times it's just "having some words for what kind of fucked up you are"?
One thing that's becoming very clear is that different archetypes have different engagement strategies. I've had a lot of success with dark triads on X by meeting heat with heat. They LIKE it when you counter punch. It makes them feel safe to vent in the way that comes naturally for them. Before long, they're civil.
I haven't gotten deep into the background ideas you've written around eristics so apologies if you elaborate elsewhere.
I think what's surprising about the personality change you describe is it's speed and severity (you wrote on twitter about how everyone who knows you clearly notice it). In therapy theories there seems to be a lot of different frameworks grasping at similar things. An excessive biased inner critic I've seen described "negative self-talk", or "negative automatic thoughts", framed as either habitual or grounded in beliefs/schemas. Seeing that is usually very valuable of course, but often realizing the pattern ("Wow, my inner critic does not shut up no matter what happens. There's no discriminant validity here.") is usually only the first step to becoming more nuanced. People often need to re-evaluate event after event after event until they finally chip it down to something more balanced. At least that's my view. So what's interesting to me is how this happened so rapidly and (if I understood correctly) mostly from gaining insight into what type of person you are. Like why does some insights for some people appear to also change peoples thought/emotional-patterns while at other times it's just "having some words for what kind of fucked up you are"?
One thing that's becoming very clear is that different archetypes have different engagement strategies. I've had a lot of success with dark triads on X by meeting heat with heat. They LIKE it when you counter punch. It makes them feel safe to vent in the way that comes naturally for them. Before long, they're civil.