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It's easy to think. To create plan, to dream, to imagine perfect version of self and the world. Especially for N people. But, why doing things, what you thought, is so difficult? The worst moment is to start, to make first step. Why? Is our mind stiupid, or we are, or the world is? Why logic always is defeated by emotions? Are they really important in the world, which we leave in? Why I need motivation to do something? It can be curious, injuction, feel of duty, sex drive... Logic should be sufficient, why it isn't?
 

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It's easy to think. To create plan, to dream, to imagine perfect version of self and the world. Especially for N people. But, why doing things, what you thought, is so difficult? The worst moment is to start, to make first step. Why? Is our mind stiupid, or we are, or the world is? Why logic always is defeated by emotions? Are they really important in the world, which we leave in? Why I need motivation to do something? It can be curious, injuction, feel of duty, sex drive... Logic should be sufficient, why it isn't?

Without emotions, what would be logical from a human perspective? None of your goals and desires are based on logic anyway. You think it's logical to do A, B and C in order to inevitably "feel" good. Our emotions drive us, period. This naked objective logic is an illusion.
 

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These are all great Q's. Let me see if I can do anything with them.
It's easy to think. To create plan, to dream, to imagine perfect version of self and the world.
Once you've been able to identify objects to manipulate it's easy to think. Not before. Ideals may be extremes which are simplifications of everything in between.


Especially for N people.
N people are special kinds of people who look at the entire picture and are disinclined to look at pieces if the pieces betray the picture.


But, why doing things, what you thought, is so difficult? The worst moment is to start, to make first step. Why? Is our mind stiupid, or we are, or the world is?
Thought is about things, not the same as things. Separate. Is there a connection ... or how are they connected? In common though is you. You are thinking and you can move in steps. To move in steps you have to be either pushed (from within) or pulled (from without).


Why logic always is defeated by emotions? Are they really important in the world, which we leave in?
That sounds like a different issue and I question its validity. Logic and emotion operate in different dimensions. Logic is about order. Emotions are about rating what logic is ordering. Are they important? Well don't we want to rate what the world contains? Don't we want to order things from desirable to undesirable?


Why I need motivation to do something? It can be curious, injuction, feel of duty, sex drive...
That is an assumption. If one is pushed from inside do we have to call that motivation? Maybe yes. I'm not sure of the basics of motivation, such as pleasure/ pain. Conscious pleasure/ pain is not the same as unconscious persuasions of the entire body. If a stone hits me I will try to avoid the next one. That is action, isn't it? If there is a sharp pain in my stomach, I may moan or scream. That is involuntary action. But if I'm sitting in my chair and wonder why I don't get up, that is more complicated, isn't it? Eventually I will get up.


Logic should be sufficient, why it isn't?
Logic isn't alive. Ordering 1,2,3 ... so what? Who cares? That's why it isn't sufficient. Actually there is a form of action. That is the actual act of ordering. But you are asking about going beyond that.

I have the feeling I haven't answered your Qs adequately.
 

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I have the feeling I haven't answered your Qs adequately.

Well, there could not be adequately good answers :/
Sometimes there are questions, which are more difficult than we are. Like why Universe exist? Maybe I ask too many theese difficult questions...
 

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It's easy to think. To create plan, to dream, to imagine perfect version of self and the world. Especially for N people. But, why doing things, what you thought, is so difficult? The worst moment is to start, to make first step. Why? Is our mind stiupid, or we are, or the world is? Why logic always is defeated by emotions? Are they really important in the world, which we leave in? Why I need motivation to do something? It can be curious, injuction, feel of duty, sex drive... Logic should be sufficient, why it isn't?
You are not a machine. It is not enough to write down an algorithm and run it, eat and sleep to be functional.

Maybe finding the things that distract you, that you find more important than your current plans would help you define the problems?

Poor concentration, poor time management, avolition, etc.

Another thing is that your plan is imperfect, as any plan is.
So in your plans you should include the possible obstacles you will encounter.
One of the possible obstacles to your algorithm is your motivation, if you lack it, then find it, otherwise you will not execute the command sequence. Find the emotion, desires, thirst, or will for the things you have written down or dreamt of.

If you go about executing your plan, on many steps out of many you will constantly be forced to revise your inaccurate assumptions, something was more difficult than it seemed on paper and it took you 10 days instead of 2, you were sick for 7 days and you will fail to meet a few of the objectives, etc., etc.

It is important to be able to revise the plan and follow the grand scheme or the outline, rather than to follow everything you think should happen, because at the time you are planning, you know almost nothing about your actual capability in a month or in a few weeks time.

Another thing is planning and dreaming in itself, what could you achieve in an hour you spent daydreaming? You could have memorised several words from a language you want to master, you could have written 60 new lines of code, gone jogging, etc.

If you know what you desire and like, creating an outline and knowing what you want is helpful, writing and constantly thinking about what comes next is not. It is much more profitable and rewarding to focus on the now, on the current part of the problem or the experience you are a part of.
 

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You seem to want manipulator to ask, perhaps he is your machine.
Yes Grayman. He is programmed that way. Ya wins some; ya loses some. This one is a winna.
 
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