Whenever you are considering a course of action, try to first identify the emotion or rationale that is motivating you. Understanding why you want to do something will help you determine whether you really should.
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Replying to @G_S_Bhogal
What if I don't know whether that rationale is a good one or not?
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Replying to @IonaItalia @G_S_Bhogal
Try to analyze the rationale, and then decide
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Replying to @IonaItalia @GoranQu
A good heuristic is to judge the worth of a decision based on the degree to which its motivation is emotional. Generally, the more emotional the motivation, the less you should listen to it, especially if the motivating emotion is impulsive & momentary (e.g. rage).
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Replying to @G_S_Bhogal @GoranQu
My motivation is entirely emotional: but all good emotions like warm fuzzy feelings & excitement.
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Replying to @IonaItalia @GoranQu
Sure, our motivations are ultimately all emotional. But crucially, by different degrees; there's a big difference between eating chocolate cake until you feel sick and eating just a slice; one is driven by unbridled emotion, the other by emotion tempered by reason.
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Replying to @G_S_Bhogal @GoranQu
For once, you're not making sense to me. If you know whether your rationale for doing something is good or not (not just good incidentally but BETTER since there are always trade offs and rival opportunity costs involved), then you're not undecided. If you're undecided it's
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precisely because you DON'T know. Analysis won't help. Because you've already analysed and come to the decision that you don't know. (The result: I'm going with my gut & doing the thing—going to Auroville—because it just appeals.)
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You're missing a third possibility; that you assume you are making a good decision because you haven't taken the time to analyse the underlying emotions that you are feeling (which are compelling you to act), and have thus been lulled into believing ad hoc rationalisations.
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Replying to @G_S_Bhogal @GoranQu
How much time can it take though? I have been mulling over this for six months. :-p
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Replying to @IonaItalia @GoranQu
I'm not talking about you specifically, here, Iona. Just generally. I know you've spent a long time agonising over your decision, so my advice is not aimed at you.
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