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Radical rationality in life

Radical rationality in life

When find your self doing an action that is undefendable with reason, reject further participation right away.

Then do something that you can defend with reason

In life, there are moments of weakness, where you subject yourself to an undefended position.

you would do actions that, if anyone would press, you have no rational account for:

• You may took your phone out in the middle of anything, and let your thumb find its way to youtube, tiktok, twitch, TFT, Hearthstone, whichever is your poison;
• In a workout, you may retreat from the labour, and hop on your phone, chat with your buddy for way too long to justify;
• You may approach a project of yours with a burst of passion followed by ephemeral effort, synthesizing only that you can see at the moment, sometimes without a plan, and sometimes without an idea of what to achive, only that you have a passion that needs to go somewhere.
• You may eat a cinnabon.

It is a common truth that those happens. You assent to an action that turned out to be irrational, which should came with no suprise, given that you never made the effort to make sure that they are.

It certainly happen to me all them time, in that if I would remember to examine, at any particular moment, my perception of “what am I doing”, which would came to me as an impression, it is not at all uncommon that I would assent (I hope rationally) to the predication that the action is indeed undefendably irrational: how would you defend yourselves looking through hackernews for something to be snarky about?

Well, what do you do then? As with the #[master intention]

• if you find yourselves looking for stuff to hate on the internet, move your eyes from the screen and take five.
• if you find yourselves idling about, trying to satisfy your desires, and not using your brain at all – which is how a lot us do with games, movies, music – stop them even you are in the middle of the shop round, take five…

Then do something that you can defend.