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See also: this 2x2, and this blog post: Towards being purpose-driven without fighting myself: https://t.co/iSt5O91Ht4 https://t.co/R6C9MGFXww
Fighting = trying to achieve different ends in a way that contradicts. eg a person who is late driving somewhere: 2 high-level goals "friends not mad at me", "don't get arrested" ↳ 2 medium-level goals "don't be late", "don't speed" ↳ 2 contradicting 🚗 speeds: 86mph, 60mph
It's impossible to go both 86 & 60mph at the same time, but so if the conflict goes unresolved the person ends up going 78mph, which neither gets them there on time NOR under the speed limit 🤔 Note that the high-level goals don't necessarily conflict, but the medium ones do.
The solution is to find another strategy to meet the high-level goals, such as calling the friends to say you'll be late, or even trusting that in fact your friends won't shun you just because you were (if that's true). Or choosing one option, to resolve the conflict.
My latest thinking about internal conflict is something extremely obvious-in-retrospect: that the main axis of internal conflict in people is between their left & right hemispheres' profoundly different perspectives.🧠 https://t.co/4jhsw8EPJA
@visakanv This related early @existentialcoms strip produced a profound insight for me related to internal conflict. Not sure I can articulate that insight—it was more embodied than conceptual. My tip is to seek a way to transcend the argument in this comic: https://t.co/UhYlOp8Rpy https://t.co/eSmeiiOuu9
@Malcolm_Ocean Internal cohesion as "non-dissipative interfaces" https://t.co/oBKFbrY2lA
@Malcolm_Ocean by the way, it’s very difficult to appreciate Malcolm’s point without having read Making Sense of Behaviour: The Meaning of Control (the PCT book he’s mentioned elsewhere) https://t.co/tQvV5a2CZ5 https://t.co/dVmx87X1N3
