08-06-2017, 11:39 PM
Seems like most of the resistance mentioned in my last post may have been tied to motivation inhibited by fear. The resistance quickly dissipated, once I'd completed something that I'd been dreading for months. The strangest part? I'd completed it because "fear of the thing" was suddenly replaced by "fear of not doing the thing." Almost makes me wonder if the OGSF scripting will automatically clash with the motivation scripting unless there's some included way to bridge from "fear of not doing the thing" (negative) into "desire to do the thing" (positive). In which case, it might mesh more than clash.
Or maybe it's just a natural (or unavoidable) four-stage process from where I've started, no matter how I approach the destination. Fear doing it -> fear not doing it -> fear doing it less than I fear not doing it -> desire to do it? Where taking the step backward is part of the push-pull dance that moves me forward? Hmm. Still seems overly reliant on inverted fear increase to overcome the original fear enough (hopefully?) to get to positive motivation. But that also describes resistance too, so, again, that might just be how I'm personally getting from point A to point B, not how everyone gets from point X to point B. I might have to bridge from "inverted fear beats fear" to "the opposite of deferred downsides beats deferred downsides" (emotional -> logical) on my own, all because of where I've started. Which may be why I've been so focused on how preemption mitigates stress -- to remind me me, in my own terms and examples, how early completion mitigates deferred downsides. To show me where my personal door between the two is. To use my well-worn tools in a different-but-applicable context.
Sometimes, I wonder why I have to turn such a simple thing into a puzzle in order to simplify it again.
Or maybe it's just a natural (or unavoidable) four-stage process from where I've started, no matter how I approach the destination. Fear doing it -> fear not doing it -> fear doing it less than I fear not doing it -> desire to do it? Where taking the step backward is part of the push-pull dance that moves me forward? Hmm. Still seems overly reliant on inverted fear increase to overcome the original fear enough (hopefully?) to get to positive motivation. But that also describes resistance too, so, again, that might just be how I'm personally getting from point A to point B, not how everyone gets from point X to point B. I might have to bridge from "inverted fear beats fear" to "the opposite of deferred downsides beats deferred downsides" (emotional -> logical) on my own, all because of where I've started. Which may be why I've been so focused on how preemption mitigates stress -- to remind me me, in my own terms and examples, how early completion mitigates deferred downsides. To show me where my personal door between the two is. To use my well-worn tools in a different-but-applicable context.
Sometimes, I wonder why I have to turn such a simple thing into a puzzle in order to simplify it again.
