Acting and feeling are the most basic human instincts

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Planning claims to take emotion out of decision-making, but in reality, without emotion there is no reason. Emotions can serve as guides in uncertain environments.

Slight nausea in the pit of the stomach when someone reacts differently than expected, or the excitement of discovering that we might have been right:
You can't experience these unless you actually try them.

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An even bigger problem with most plans is that they confuse maps and territories - making you believe that what you can write is most important to get the desired result. From such a point of view, failure is nothing more than an inability to execute a predefined action correctly.

A more realistic way of categorizing our actions is to see them as keys that unlock more options. increase.

This is in contrast to the planning view, where an action is a step and the goal is to complete one thing and move on to the next point. The opposite is true in real life.
A new course of action is to be initiated as an unexpected opportunity presents itself. This will bring you back to the beginning.
emotions. A powerful way to take advantage of opportunities is to listen to what your emotions are telling you.

With so many variables at work, the world is chaotic and unpredictable. Logic alone is unlikely to understand this complexity. How did we humans get to this point? One reason is that evolution has given us unconscious computing power. This computing power constantly monitors reality without our knowledge and speaks to us in the language of our emotions.

The ultimate purpose of this mechanism is not to capture reality as it is, but to break through the intense sensory overload that reaches us through all our senses and to suggest action. Rational thinking is still the highest human ability, but it does not jeopardize the underlying emotions.

Behavior and emotion are two of the most basic human instincts. We all want to change the world through our actions.

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