A glitch in prioritization I've seen in myself & others: - by one criterion, A > B > Z - by another, B > A > Z - conclusion: do least important thing Z Why? Removes the tug-of-war. Lack of skill navigating internal conflict means ppl avoid at high cost.
Why conflicting priority orderings make us do the least important thing
7 tweets · September 2019 · 22 likes · 1 retweets · read on Twitter
These differing perspectives with different priorities could be all sorts of things: - wanting to please two different people - tension between two self-concepts - uncertainty about risk-tolerance - Near vs Far mode - Fear vs Desire navigation
Or something to do with the profound differences in how the left & right hemispheres of the brain perceive the world.
I wrote about a very-similar dynamic in internal game theory years ago, which I described as Vicious Rock Paper Scissors Article: malcolmocean.com/2014/09/viciou…
I've also written extensively about internal conflict from other lenses: "Towards being purpose driven without fighting myself" is also about how sometimes we scale back our ambition to reduce internal friction.
This article on building self-trust with self-referential motivation talks about some hacks for crystallizing coherence in situations like this malcolmocean.com/2017/11/self-r…
Or see dozens of tweets about internal conflict over the years.