Regardless of effectiveness of this particular strategy; I really <i>loved</i> his Devil/Angel inner dialogue, because it reminds me of how I get a handle on "things that threaten to engulf me."<p>Right now for me it's "cryptocurrency bots." I could tell that without the dialogue, the possibility that I could get insanely rich with some coding would just eat me up, especially because I know that on one hand it's almost certainly possible, but on the other-- I am a bad-to-mediocre programmer.<p>So I know I have to "make a deal" with myself, and in some ways talk myself down, and figure out the logic that would get me to do this in a reasonable way (because I know that for me, "don't even try" isn't an option.)<p>I have convinced myself in the following way by coming up with this statement: "I probably cannot make a billion dollars with crypto bots, but I'm going to have to allow to try it out to make sure."