> … it is easy to make lists of everything one wants …
> The real question behind defining [sic?] knowing what we want is actually what we are willing to sacrifice.
“Want” gets redefined somewhere between the first and second to last paragraph. Sacrifice isn’t actually inherent to the want list.
I imagine part of power of this technique is that you’re leading yourself to believe that you don’t want the things off the list. Maybe if you’re convincing enough you actually don’t? I’d be interested in what the author would think about the things on the first list and off the final draft. Do they still want them?
I don’t know. In writing this out, it may be less dissonance and more conversion. I think I’d like to try this out. For myself, I just want to be sure I don’t act like I never wanted those things in the first place. More like saying goodbye to them.
Or maybe it’s like team tryouts? You can want 100 players on your team. But there are also the 25 players you really want, that get their name on the short list.