In my regular life and in client work, I've had cognitive dissonance on my mind lately.https://www.pamelajhobart.com/blog/cognitive-dissonance-ruins-everything …
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Becoming particularly interested in the phenomenon of experiencing as compulsory things that are not, in fact compulsory.
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Like for instance I often end up being the parent who gently points out that you don't have to prepare your own baby food from scratch, you don't have to submit to high-pressure school interviews for 2 year olds, etc. You can just not.
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(Not to say I don't do this too - just, whatever it is, it's in my blind spot still!)
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So I was walking my kids to school and thinking about what I wanted to tweet about this illusion, of things being compulsory when they're not.
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And I realized maybe I have it backwards. What if experiencing things as compulsory is not the location of a cognitive dissonance problem, but actually its attempted solution?
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It's hard to decide between high-stakes things when there are clear reasons for and against but their expected outcomes are unclear, some of the costs/benefits are present and some way in the future, etc.
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compulsory mindset as a form of strategic ignorance?
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