I have been thingking about all those times when you do certain, silly, stupid things and all you have to say afterwards is "I wasn't thinking" or "I didn't think..." I've thought long and hard about all those times and I'm yet to find one with a positive outcome. Really this just brings to light the well worn saying "Action with out thought is dangerous."
For me it seems that despite this being know to us all, we choose to ignore it at times when really we shouldn't. More importantly perhaps, we often do so when the stakes are high for not only ourselves but others too. Yet no matter how many times we are warned to think before doing, most of us -myself included- fail to adhear to our warnings and also past experience.
Now I'm no specialist in human behaviour, hell I know next to nothing about it, but surely this is a major flaw of ours? If we constantly make the same mistake -albeit under different circumstances- without learning from it? Is there a reason for our falings?
What is really annoying though is our habit to point this out when others do it, I mean many if not all have found ourselves saying " What were you thinking? Oh that's right you weren't!" Now I don't enjoy being hypercritical but I myself have done this and then thought afterwards "What right do I have to say that?"
Is there just something about this shared human error that we like to point out? Or is it perhaps that we don't want to feel like we're the only ones who have done it? Either way I think it's fairly safe to say perhaps we should focus more on making sure we don't act without thought rather than scold others for doing so.
For me it seems that despite this being know to us all, we choose to ignore it at times when really we shouldn't. More importantly perhaps, we often do so when the stakes are high for not only ourselves but others too. Yet no matter how many times we are warned to think before doing, most of us -myself included- fail to adhear to our warnings and also past experience.
Now I'm no specialist in human behaviour, hell I know next to nothing about it, but surely this is a major flaw of ours? If we constantly make the same mistake -albeit under different circumstances- without learning from it? Is there a reason for our falings?
What is really annoying though is our habit to point this out when others do it, I mean many if not all have found ourselves saying " What were you thinking? Oh that's right you weren't!" Now I don't enjoy being hypercritical but I myself have done this and then thought afterwards "What right do I have to say that?"
Is there just something about this shared human error that we like to point out? Or is it perhaps that we don't want to feel like we're the only ones who have done it? Either way I think it's fairly safe to say perhaps we should focus more on making sure we don't act without thought rather than scold others for doing so.
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