All else being equal, if you “wanted” to do something but then didn’t do it, it means you didn’t actually want to do it. Maybe you thought you should, you recognised the value etc. But that is very different to actually wanting something. You have no problem doing what you want.
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Replying to @ssica3003
What should I call it instead when I have the feeling I would previously have described as “wanting to do that thing”?
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See what’s really true in the moment. “It would be advantageous to do this”. “It would be smart to do this”. “If I did this is have a good cv” etc. Just don’t confuse yourself that you “want” to do it, you don’t, it will take effort.
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speaking for myself, this is phenomenologically simply false. e.g. I don't *want* to binge, I don't *want* to shirk my duties for procrastinatory lollygagging -yet I do! The experience of desire, of "I want", is the same or even stronger, as in cases of fully egosyntonic behavior
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Great point :) I recently read a book “the courage to be disliked” and it outlines Adlerian psychology that everything you do is “serving” some need even if the behaviour is negative in valence (like addiction). But I do love you point about ego-less “automatic”(?) behaviours
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