I’m a bit emotionally tense at the moment, so this observation might not be as valuable as it seems to me, but it occurs to me that there are two categories of things I do: thinking things through in detail, and acting on emotion with very little forethought involved. The category that we want—thinking an action through, then performing it—is mysteriously absent.
It’s possible to get around this to some extent, but it requires the emotionally-driven, poorly-thought out things to involve recurring or predictable stimuli. In those cases, I can think through and commit to a more rational plan during the intermediate time of inaction. Drama happens either when an emotionally-charged situation appears unexpectedly, or when I need to carry out some plan I’ve thought through but can’t generate the emotional charge.
I can’t really bluff my own hardware well enough to combat either end of the spectrum, but if there’s some way to make conscientiousness and intelligence play nice together, that’d be nice.
I’m a bit emotionally tense at the moment, so this observation might not be as valuable as it seems to me, but it occurs to me that there are two categories of things I do: thinking things through in detail, and acting on emotion with very little forethought involved. The category that we want—thinking an action through, then performing it—is mysteriously absent.
It’s possible to get around this to some extent, but it requires the emotionally-driven, poorly-thought out things to involve recurring or predictable stimuli. In those cases, I can think through and commit to a more rational plan during the intermediate time of inaction. Drama happens either when an emotionally-charged situation appears unexpectedly, or when I need to carry out some plan I’ve thought through but can’t generate the emotional charge.
I can’t really bluff my own hardware well enough to combat either end of the spectrum, but if there’s some way to make conscientiousness and intelligence play nice together, that’d be nice.