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> Seeming to be right justifies disrespect, contempt, and other forms of emotional pollution, which spread like wildfire in our electronic age. This explains T

• ncr100 6y ago
  > Covariant with the substitution of power for value is the persistent need to be right while making others wrong. Seeming to be right justifies disrespect, contempt, and other forms of emotional pollution, which spread like wildfire in our electronic age. In addition, they suffer an illusion of certainty. High adrenaline emotions, particularly anger, create the profoundest illusions of certainty, due to their amphetamine effects. The amphetamine effect creates a temporary sense of confidence and certainty, while narrowing mental focus and eliminating most variables from consideration. That's why you feel more confident after a cup of coffee (a mild amphetamine effect) than before it, and it’s why you’re convinced that you’re right and everyone else is wrong when you're angry. Feels good to be right. However being sad or afraid and correct could be healthier. Managing one's life without awareness one is really transitively managing one's feelings can lead to disappointment and frustration when the world works differently than how one's feelings need the world to work.
  • cutemonster 6y ago
    > being sad or afraid and correct could be healthier At the same time, can be problematic at the workplace, when people listen to your sad/anxious voice, and disregard the actual words you speak, instead, based on your voice feel convinced you're wrong