Incoherent (or trend-break within) personal narrative

[TheMeInTeam]

I think dissonance is the "natural" response. You really have to be vigilant and actively resist it. Its not easy at all, so I try not to fault people too much when they can't or won't resist that tendancy.

For sure, noticing it at all is the hardest part of the process, and requires the most vigilance. Looking at what we actually choose independent from self-perceived motivation is the closest we can get to an objective look at ourselves, and this *should* define our self-narrative. OP kind of glosses over the crucial "noticing it at all" part, as there's in implicit assumption you're already aware of the incoherence. Otherwise it wouldn't be possible to make a value judgment on its existence.

Noticing it in others is of course easier, though perhaps carries something of a reverse bias compared to analyzing self.

To clarify, the annoyance for me comes in when evidence is presented (in this case, the evidence is a simple look at what someone actually chooses), yet people do not update beliefs in accordance with track record.

This reminds me of the movie Office Space when they are asking each other "What would you do if you had a million dollars" and the first guy starts talking about all the ways he would invest it to make more money. The second guy yells at him and tells him that's not the point of the exercise as you're supposed to say what you would actually do. But I always thought that was wrong. I think it just meant that the Samir character should be a investment banker or stockbroker, because that was obviously what he would like doing if he had the money to do it.

One doesn't really know until the scenario presents, but it's definitely a reasonable answer even in the context of the movie. It's the first thing that came to that character's mind, and if he actually invested it upon getting a million dollars then it would be a good guess.

 

[Kyriakos]

Know thyself
The unexamined life isn't worth living
One has two ears and one mouth so they can speak once and hear twice

Well, at least up to a point.

 

[Sommerswerd]

One has two ears and one mouth so they can speak once and hear twice

So do we have 10 fingers and one cornholio so we can poke our fingers in the pie ten times but only stick it in the rear once?

 

[Kyriakos]

Barbarians

 

[Narz]

If I'm not breaking my past narrative I'm not learning/changing. A foolish consistancy is a sad safe haven.

No ones keeping track of my self-narrative anyway.

 

[Berzerker]

I gave up the sugar (Pepsi and Mt Dew), I gave up the cigarettes, I gave up the junk food, and I gave up the booze and drugs - I gave up harmful addictions. I had to, getting old sucks. The body starts falling apart, so take care of it while you're young. All that abuse accumulates... My immortality came crashing down to earth, so now I lecture others. New believers are the most annoying

I'm in the hopeful camp, hoping I can make 70 relatively intact

 

[Gori the Grey]

Today's break tomorrow is just the latest chapter in the narrative. Coherence gonna cohere.

 

[Kyriakos]

As someone who lived most of his life in that south american city which welcomed a large number of ww2 nazi officials wrote: "the innumerable walking paths of an entire life would be visible in a form as distinct as a triangle is for us" etc.

 

[Kyriakos]

I'm sure you're aware that the member you're talking about is too young to have welcomed them personally...

Maybe i wasn't talking about any member? ...
Quote is by Borges, anyway.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Maybe i wasn't talking about any member? ...
Quote is by Borges, anyway.

Okay, as long as this isn't a dig at a forum member we both know, I'll retract my previous post.