Hi everybody,
Sway: The irresistible Pull of irrational behavior is a good way to start a conversation with ourselves: Why do I do what I do? How can I bring more order and less chaos to my thinking?
In this book there are three basic conditions that arise to “sway” us from sensible decision-making to irrational behavior:
- Loss averstion – quite simply, a fear of losing something…time, money, etc.
- Force of commitment –this is our inability to change course even if the road we’re on is clearly destined for failure. We’ve committed, we can’t stop now.
- Value attribution - a quick mental shortcut to determine what is worthy of our attention and what is not. This is rampant for many of us into today’s sensory overloaded society.
Our natural tendency to avoid the pain of loss is most likely to distort our thinking when we place too much emphasis on short-term goals. When we adopt the long view, on the other hand, immediate potential losses don’t seem as menacing.
But not always we face situations that allow us to calmly calculated the consequences. There are situations that establish us in sensitive positions. In such cases we have to decide. This decision maybe will has long term consequences, or short terms. In those moments the only important thing is to do the most suitable thing according to the moment. In idealistic situation we have the luxury to consider the Ori and Rom point of view, but in the daily life their point of view is difficult to be taken in consideration whatever be the desire.
The situation change when we have a road map of our plans, in this case it is obligatory to view the potential “future” of our decisions.
Hello Blerina
ReplyDeleteI think that it is because we don't see so far as to calculated the consequences that we always digg depper hopping to find the solutions and bringing order to our thoughts but most of the times personally i have find more caos in my mind.