It’s quite obvious what profession you are well suited for. Now you have to try something difficult, understanding people. Or at least trying to. It won’t come naturally to you because it doesn’t make sense. It’s a lot of aribitrary rules that overlap and contradict, and nobody really understands it all. But if you can’t rise to a challenge, you won’t succeed in anything.
The OP’s wrong! Just wrong! I know it!
And now I’ll read the thread…
The solution is to stop and think. Impulsive actions usually produce immediate benefits and long-term consequences. If you stop and think about those consequences, you’ll realize the immediate benefits aren’t worth it. A more thoughtful response, while it may be more difficult to make now, will gain you greater benefits over the long-term.
No it’s not!!
Oh, wait… yeah, ok, you’re right.
I disagree. Instinct and habit are two different things; and what you do on impulse has at least as much to do with the habits you’ve formed as with the instincts that are built into you.
[QUOTE=William James]
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy. It is to fund and capitalize our acquisitions, and live at ease upon the interest of the fund. For this we must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and guard against the growing into ways that are likely to be disadvantageous to us, as we should guard against the plague. The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the more our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work. There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision, and for whom the lighting of every cigar, the drinking of every cup, the time of rising and going to bed every day, and the beginning of every bit of work, are subjects of express volitional deliberation. Full half the time of such a man goes to the deciding, or regretting, of matters which ought to be so ingrained in him as practically not to exist for his consciousness at all. If there be such daily duties not yet ingrained in any one of my readers, let him begin this very hour to set the matter right.
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In other words, acting without thinking is often a good thing, provided you’ve developed good habits so that the thing you do on impulse is the right thing to do.