What do you mean? This would imply that I decide to do something that requires motivation. In my worldview, everything follows after the other so quickly, so sequentially, that there isn’t time to stop and go: ‘How do I feel about this?’
I go to the gym, yes. It’s incredibly painful, yes. In my worldview, this would be a symptom of masochistic tendencies; either from stoic philosophy I’ve inherited, or figures I aspired to during childhood. Not sure? Might be useful to draw a mind map at some point and calculate exactly what is deciding things for me. EDIT: notice, even now; I’d only draw this mindmap because I’ve read your post, and I only found this post because it popped up randomly on my feed, and so on and so on.
As to whether I ‘do things I don’t want to do’. Again, I don’t know what you mean by this. Some things might be imposed on me that set off some kind of unhappiness. I might be pushed into other things that happen to make me happy. I don’t distinguish or preempt these events with how I feel about starting them only how I feel during them.
Huh. This is an interesting read. Your mind seems to work in a very different way than mine.
Have you read The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes? I have not read the whole thing, but I have read summaries of it, and your description reminds me of it. :)
‘How do you motivate yourself?’
What do you mean? This would imply that I decide to do something that requires motivation. In my worldview, everything follows after the other so quickly, so sequentially, that there isn’t time to stop and go: ‘How do I feel about this?’
I go to the gym, yes. It’s incredibly painful, yes. In my worldview, this would be a symptom of masochistic tendencies; either from stoic philosophy I’ve inherited, or figures I aspired to during childhood. Not sure? Might be useful to draw a mind map at some point and calculate exactly what is deciding things for me. EDIT: notice, even now; I’d only draw this mindmap because I’ve read your post, and I only found this post because it popped up randomly on my feed, and so on and so on.
As to whether I ‘do things I don’t want to do’. Again, I don’t know what you mean by this. Some things might be imposed on me that set off some kind of unhappiness. I might be pushed into other things that happen to make me happy. I don’t distinguish or preempt these events with how I feel about starting them only how I feel during them.
Huh. This is an interesting read. Your mind seems to work in a very different way than mine.
Have you read The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes? I have not read the whole thing, but I have read summaries of it, and your description reminds me of it. :)