Ugh field

Pavlovian conditioning can cause humans to unconsciously flinch from even thinking about a serious personal problem they have. We call it an "ugh field". The ugh field forms a self-shadowing blind spot covering an area desperately in need of optimization.

Blog posts

• Avoiding Your Belief's Real Weak Points
• Ugh fields by Roko
• Defeating Ugh Fields in Practice by Psychohistorian
• Learned Blankness by Anna Salamon
• Don't Fear Failure by atucker
• ‘Ugh Fields’, or why you can’t even bear to think about that task by Robert Wiblin

See also

• Akrasia
• Priming, Curiosity stopper
• Compartmentalization
• Trivial inconvenience
• Motivated cognition
• Experiential Avoidance