does “you are what you can’t stop yourself from doing” help you in this time? Querying your revealed preferences for behavior that is beyond effortless, that it would take effort to not do, can be very informative.
Bertrand Russell points out productive compulsion as well! Emotional drive to create, or stand up, etc.
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does “you are what you can’t stop yourself from doing” help you in this time? Querying your revealed preferences for behavior that is beyond effortless, that it would take effort to not do, can be very informative.
Bertrand Russell points out productive compulsion as well! Emotional drive to create, or stand up, etc.