Like seeing something unfold and accepting one of the first few rationalizations you can make
A shallow example would be a car speeding along the highway, almost always it evokes a strong negative reaction, like "you're not gonna cut me off" or "that's a nice expensive toy you bought to race to each red light with" but if it's like an older or worn down looking car or a minivan or something like that, I can tell myself it very well could be a woman about to give birth being rushed to the hospital, which immediately replaces my feelings with mindful indifference
Deeper examples, I can use this person at work
For a few weeks now he's been working at my pizza shop, and he doesn't really ever show that much improvement/initiative, seems to play dumb, and has seemed to be passive aggressive
I know people who would look at that and say then and there that he's not a good employee, and I recognized that in myself, but I kept at it with training and corrective action and gave him the BOTD
Currently he's leaving piss in the toilet, pretending to be even less intelligent, and doing things I can prove psychologically wrong on purpose just to be annoying
I waited because I know he's adopted and has family issues, I grew up with that too and can understand the strain, and I was hoping the right nudges from me would help
But now he's showing me this is just what I'm gonna get with him. I've explained things to my boss (there's also 60 dollars that went missing over the few times I've had him work a till, which he says he does at another job) and he's primarily going to be cleaning the bathroom and other things and doing busy work like folding boxes etc until he's had enough and quits or we can let him go, whichever comes first
So in this case my earlier assessments were right (they're usually pretty close to accurate) but I didn't act on them until I was convinced beyond reasonable doubt (I've seen people get fired for much, much less)
Bones just explained something like this in an episode I watched, it's about maintaining objectivity and not falling for logical fallacies or something like that (a scientist friend of hers helped a cannibal and he rationalized giving the man human canines to make dentures, as well capturing a person to eat, and rationalized it in a very scientific way that Bones was able to refute in like 3 simple questions)
What's your psychiatric diagnosis?
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'accepting presuppositions is one of the biggest things I see others do that I don't,'
What's that, can you give examples?
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Like seeing something unfold and accepting one of the first few rationalizations you can make
A shallow example would be a car speeding along the highway, almost always it evokes a strong negative reaction, like "you're not gonna cut me off" or "that's a nice expensive toy you bought to race to each red light with" but if it's like an older or worn down looking car or a minivan or something like that, I can tell myself it very well could be a woman about to give birth being rushed to the hospital, which immediately replaces my feelings with mindful indifference
Deeper examples, I can use this person at work
For a few weeks now he's been working at my pizza shop, and he doesn't really ever show that much improvement/initiative, seems to play dumb, and has seemed to be passive aggressive
I know people who would look at that and say then and there that he's not a good employee, and I recognized that in myself, but I kept at it with training and corrective action and gave him the BOTD
Currently he's leaving piss in the toilet, pretending to be even less intelligent, and doing things I can prove psychologically wrong on purpose just to be annoying
I waited because I know he's adopted and has family issues, I grew up with that too and can understand the strain, and I was hoping the right nudges from me would help
But now he's showing me this is just what I'm gonna get with him. I've explained things to my boss (there's also 60 dollars that went missing over the few times I've had him work a till, which he says he does at another job) and he's primarily going to be cleaning the bathroom and other things and doing busy work like folding boxes etc until he's had enough and quits or we can let him go, whichever comes first
So in this case my earlier assessments were right (they're usually pretty close to accurate) but I didn't act on them until I was convinced beyond reasonable doubt (I've seen people get fired for much, much less)
Bones just explained something like this in an episode I watched, it's about maintaining objectivity and not falling for logical fallacies or something like that (a scientist friend of hers helped a cannibal and he rationalized giving the man human canines to make dentures, as well capturing a person to eat, and rationalized it in a very scientific way that Bones was able to refute in like 3 simple questions)