anything else would be nothing more than a two way monologue.
just feeling like it
an excerpt from one of the readings for my FYP
Everything human do is tinged with emotions. Emotion changes the way we think and guide us to towards the good. Affect and emotions are crucial in everyday decision making according to neuroscientist Antonio Damasio who studied people with impaired emotion systems. These people are unable to function effectively in the world because they were unable to make decisions. They could describe how they should have functioned in a logical and rational way but still couldn’t determine where to live, what to eat or what products to buy. The people in Damasio’s study were often unable to choose between alternatives, especially those that appears equally valid. This is where the people with intact emotions would choose something because ‘they just feel like it’. Such feelings are expressions of emotion and are crucial to human behavioral.
flowing with the waves
does life becomes easier when the right to choose is taken away from you?
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While in the midst of being dragged along by a number of work-in-progresses (WIPs), I’ve come to realise a few things.
In group dynamics, especially those that involve creative inputs rather than merely fulfilling requirements, there’s a streak of obstinacy in me that refuses to be convinced till I’m convinced. This competitiveness is especially apparent in matters that are particularly significant to me. On the other hand, there is another side of me that resist being out-rightly outspoken because it’s uncharacteristic of me.
At the end of the week, the lesson to take home is – to learn to see everyone as an individual, whether if he/she is a friend, an enemy, a stranger, an academic, a student, a smartass or a dumbass, just everyone! Only when one begin to appreciate everyone’s uniqueness, can the benefits be maximised.