This is a plausible claim, but do you have concrete details, proposed mechanisms, or examples from your own or others lives to back it up? “I find that rationality makes it far easier” is a promising-sounding claim, and it’d be nice to know the causes of your belief.
Hmm. This is a simple question that seems difficult to articulate an answer to. I think the heart of my argument is that it is very difficult to achieve any goal without planning, and planning (to be effective) relies upon a true and consistent set of beliefs and logical inferences from them. This is pretty much the definition of rationality.
Now, its not the case that the opposite is random activity which one hopes will bring about the correct outcome. To be driven by emotions, seat-of-the-pants decisions and gut-instincts is to allow an evolutionarily-derived decision-making process to run your life. Its not a completely faulty process, but it did not evolve for the kinds of situations modern people find themselves in so, in practice, its not hard to do better by applying rational principals.
This is a plausible claim, but do you have concrete details, proposed mechanisms, or examples from your own or others lives to back it up? “I find that rationality makes it far easier” is a promising-sounding claim, and it’d be nice to know the causes of your belief.
Hmm. This is a simple question that seems difficult to articulate an answer to. I think the heart of my argument is that it is very difficult to achieve any goal without planning, and planning (to be effective) relies upon a true and consistent set of beliefs and logical inferences from them. This is pretty much the definition of rationality.
Now, its not the case that the opposite is random activity which one hopes will bring about the correct outcome. To be driven by emotions, seat-of-the-pants decisions and gut-instincts is to allow an evolutionarily-derived decision-making process to run your life. Its not a completely faulty process, but it did not evolve for the kinds of situations modern people find themselves in so, in practice, its not hard to do better by applying rational principals.