SolitaryWalker
Tenured roisterer
- Joined
- Apr 23, 2007
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- MBTI Type
- INTP
- Enneagram
- 5w6
- Instinctual Variant
- so/sx
Axiom: People are naturally driven towards self-affirmation. The reason for this is because we all naturally wish to feel good. Thus, as a matter of unconscious drive we do all things which we feel leads to our well being.
It is important for us to believe that we are in good condition in order to feel good. For this reason we feel that we must know something positive about ourselves.
There are two ways to know things. Through our own thinking, and by virtue of being informed by others.
Most people are not able to think on their own clearly, therefore they need to be affirmed by others.
Most people elect recognition by others as their primary goal in life.
Society tends to send conflicting messages to people and for this reason they lack a clear notion with respect to what they must do in order to receive the affirmation. This is the case because most people informing them are not clear on the message themselves. Hence, at the very beginning we start with a communicator who is not clearly aware of what instructions to give. He does not communicate it clearly and others, due to their inability to think clearly are unable to properly understand the message he has stated.
As a result of such confusions, his message is increasingly misunderstood as it begins to spread further.
People behave irrationally for these two reasons. The original message was likely irrational and the confusion that has followed as a result of unsound communication has likely rendered the message even more irrational.
Since most people are unable to think for themselves they are guided almost entirely by their interpretations of the irrational reactions they receive. For this reason they are unable to solve problems in an efficient manner and that is the primary source of the most significant problems plaguing mankind. This proposition is nearly a truism as the manifestly most sound reaction to any problem is to attempt to solve it. Since people are unable to solve such problems, they are gravely afflicted by them.
It is important for us to believe that we are in good condition in order to feel good. For this reason we feel that we must know something positive about ourselves.
There are two ways to know things. Through our own thinking, and by virtue of being informed by others.
Most people are not able to think on their own clearly, therefore they need to be affirmed by others.
Most people elect recognition by others as their primary goal in life.
Society tends to send conflicting messages to people and for this reason they lack a clear notion with respect to what they must do in order to receive the affirmation. This is the case because most people informing them are not clear on the message themselves. Hence, at the very beginning we start with a communicator who is not clearly aware of what instructions to give. He does not communicate it clearly and others, due to their inability to think clearly are unable to properly understand the message he has stated.
As a result of such confusions, his message is increasingly misunderstood as it begins to spread further.
People behave irrationally for these two reasons. The original message was likely irrational and the confusion that has followed as a result of unsound communication has likely rendered the message even more irrational.
Since most people are unable to think for themselves they are guided almost entirely by their interpretations of the irrational reactions they receive. For this reason they are unable to solve problems in an efficient manner and that is the primary source of the most significant problems plaguing mankind. This proposition is nearly a truism as the manifestly most sound reaction to any problem is to attempt to solve it. Since people are unable to solve such problems, they are gravely afflicted by them.