….Somebody has a solution?
Let us read and try to understand what Ayn Rand once said…
"An emotion is an automatic response, an automatic effect of man's value premises. An effect, not a cause. There is no necessary clash, no dichotomy between man's reason and his emotions—provided he observes their proper relationship. A rational man knows—or makes it a point to discover—the source of his emotions, the basic premises from which they come; if his premises are wrong, he corrects them. He never acts on emotions for which he cannot account, the meaning of which he does not understand. In appraising a situation, he knows why he reacts as he does and whether he is right. He has no inner conflicts, his mind and his emotions are integrated, his consciousness is in perfect harmony. His emotions are not his enemies, they are his means of enjoying life. But they are not his guide; the guide is his mind. This relationship cannot be reversed, however. If a man takes his emotions as the cause and his mind as their passive effect, if he is guided by his emotions and uses his mind only to rationalize or justify them somehow—then he is acting immorally, he is condemning himself to misery, failure, defeat, and he will achieve nothing but destruction—his own and that of others."
What an insight from an erudite thinker!
Let us check our own premises. Are emotions the cause or the effect? Or let us put it in a different way: do we want them to be the cause or the effect?
For most of us, the driving factor is the environment around us. The virtual boundary, the split that widens as a function of time comes as a direct consequence of the split between what we want as the cause or the effect. These emotions that from an inseparable part of our actuality lay the foundation for a plethora of expectations: so much so, that we start expecting not only from others, but even from ourselves. Expectations that lead to compromises and compromises that slowly lead to clashes.
There is a certain amount of inevitability about all this that ultimately leads us into an intangible web! However, I sometimes do beleive "It is not advisable, lames, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener."
Let us read and try to understand what Ayn Rand once said…
"An emotion is an automatic response, an automatic effect of man's value premises. An effect, not a cause. There is no necessary clash, no dichotomy between man's reason and his emotions—provided he observes their proper relationship. A rational man knows—or makes it a point to discover—the source of his emotions, the basic premises from which they come; if his premises are wrong, he corrects them. He never acts on emotions for which he cannot account, the meaning of which he does not understand. In appraising a situation, he knows why he reacts as he does and whether he is right. He has no inner conflicts, his mind and his emotions are integrated, his consciousness is in perfect harmony. His emotions are not his enemies, they are his means of enjoying life. But they are not his guide; the guide is his mind. This relationship cannot be reversed, however. If a man takes his emotions as the cause and his mind as their passive effect, if he is guided by his emotions and uses his mind only to rationalize or justify them somehow—then he is acting immorally, he is condemning himself to misery, failure, defeat, and he will achieve nothing but destruction—his own and that of others."
What an insight from an erudite thinker!
Let us check our own premises. Are emotions the cause or the effect? Or let us put it in a different way: do we want them to be the cause or the effect?
For most of us, the driving factor is the environment around us. The virtual boundary, the split that widens as a function of time comes as a direct consequence of the split between what we want as the cause or the effect. These emotions that from an inseparable part of our actuality lay the foundation for a plethora of expectations: so much so, that we start expecting not only from others, but even from ourselves. Expectations that lead to compromises and compromises that slowly lead to clashes.
There is a certain amount of inevitability about all this that ultimately leads us into an intangible web! However, I sometimes do beleive "It is not advisable, lames, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener."
posted by Kapil Sundrani @ 9:01 AM
1 Comments:
Ayn Rand as all ways putting things nicely as done above.Thought emotions are a result of the values we nurture and correct with time.But these emotions are also a byproduct of the mind.It is the mind who has associated them with events.But i will disagree here with emotions causing expectations.It is the mind who as associated expectations with people and emotions as always are just the byproduct when we fail to meet the expectations.Some we expect on basis of well measured parameters while other times we just associate.And moreover it is not the expectations which cause compromise it is our feeling of being not able to meet the expectation which is a result of compromise.
Read the poem "IF" by Mark Twain where the poet in third passage talks about you able to toss up all your losses and start from scratch again and never utter one word of your losses.Or as Hariwansh Rai Bachan says in the poem "Koshish karne walon ki kabhi haar nahin hoti"(People who keep trying never fail.)And the one thing that keeps you working is your expectations..Is nt it!!
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