Personal Inertia
My read count is going down. The posts are too long, and that means people seem to think they’re not worth the time. That may be.
I’d like everyone to use Twitter. My user name is “codybaldwin”.
Has anyone ever noticed the speed difference of transportation affecting their outlook and perspective. This is another environmental influence. Perhaps road rage is really a symptom of just having the capability to go faster, and the environment naturally makes you ask “if I’m going this fast (way faster than humans normally can even comprehend) why can’t I go faster?” I think walking is a healthy change of environment if you have the time, but all of the modes of transportation are worth using regularly for extended periods of time. Duh.
That brings me to my next point, it seems to me that people often intuitively underrate the amount of time or effort in regards to tasks/events/situations they don’t want to do or experience. Furthermore, I think they might overrate things that they already do a lot, even if they aren’t what they want in the long term, sort of like an introspectively-social inertia. In other words, someone who gets beaten a lot will be more likely to deal with it longer if they already have been; likewise, someone who doesn’t exercise very much will underestimate the amount of time exercise should take (or how much un-fun it should be). I’d like to make a list of these for myself. Here are a few.
First set of Personal Inertia’s:
- Judgment (without taking into account environmental factors): An example of this is when I spend a lot of time with someone and I assume that it allows me to pass judgment even though I had no reason too except perhaps projected identity.
- Generalization (pattern finding, sort of like judgment, but more broad): Basically the same thing as above, except it is less specific to individuals, it’s easy to pass judgment on the world even though it didn’t ask for it. There’s a difference between prescribing, describing, and telling a story–this has to do with an inability to do one of them in the situation that requires it.
- Amnesia (the time affects perception and decision making process’s): People forget, environments change, etc. Frequency is said to be the cure, but some things should not be frequently reminded
- Environment (the state of total body and surroundings affect my perception and decision making process’s): If I’ve been going for a run everyday, and stop for a week, then go to a party and have a beer, I’m going think differently. Likewise, if I use the Internet and most people are reading books, I’m going to think different.
Pet stores are strange places. I am nervous about Canterbury–in a good way.
