Anonymous asked:
hmm good question
The first thing that comes to mind that I’d like to change about myself is ~social anxiety~ because it makes p much everything harder–school, jobs, having a social life.
In terms of like doing good in the world, my biggest character flaw might be that I’m not altruistic enough. (~Social anxiety~ makes me less effective but not that much less effective.) But I don’t, like, system-1-want to change that, because then I would have to spend more money helping people and less buying nice things for myself. And I’m pretty sure only EAs would agree that this actually counts as a flaw.
(On the character flaw vs skill deficit thing, I want to defend Traditional Conceptions of Virtue or something here but truth is when I stopped thinking of my shyness as a character flaw it actually got a lot better and I got happier so)