I offer another data point. Right now I’m struggling mightily with procrastination, and pjeby’s post of 26 April 2009 04:38:27PM is perfectly comprehensible to me because it closely mirrors my internal experience of the difference between preference and motivation. I’ve also had the experience of believing that my preference should motivate me, and creating elaborate explanations for why it doesn’t.
I wonder if you have to feel like your mind’s in dysfunction before the things pjeby writes seem plausible—that is, maybe the inferential distance is too far for a properly working mind.
I offer another data point. Right now I’m struggling mightily with procrastination, and pjeby’s post of 26 April 2009 04:38:27PM is perfectly comprehensible to me because it closely mirrors my internal experience of the difference between preference and motivation. I’ve also had the experience of believing that my preference should motivate me, and creating elaborate explanations for why it doesn’t.
I wonder if you have to feel like your mind’s in dysfunction before the things pjeby writes seem plausible—that is, maybe the inferential distance is too far for a properly working mind.