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Unfolding Nature Shop: Unfolding Nature: Being in the Implicate Order

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Re: Difficulty as Opportunity [Re: Blue_Lux]
    #28670626 - 02/21/24 11:19 PM (4 months, 2 days ago)

delayed gratification feels like a drag,
and is no solution for all problems,
but used with intelligence it a delay is the difference between death in a mouse trap and a nice piece of cheese.

sorry if someone else got your girlfriend pregnant while you delayed promising her (whatever) but she went her way, and you did not for your own reasons keep up. Sometimes the chase is endless.


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Re: Difficulty as Opportunity [Re: Blue_Lux]
    #28670941 - 02/22/24 07:07 AM (4 months, 1 day ago)

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Blue_Lux said:

Delayed gratification sounds cool...




Dismissing desires for gratification can feel painful.

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Re: Difficulty as Opportunity [Re: redgreenvines]
    #28671205 - 02/22/24 10:37 AM (4 months, 1 day ago)

Take my favorite example.

1. In order to learn Latin, it will be difficult, annoying, and you will be confused and feel, perhaps, like you can't do it.
2. In order to learn Latin, it may involve unpleasantness.
3. In order to really learn Latin, you must find some pleasant thing in it that makes it become easier and quicker to learn.
4. The unpleasant moment of difficulty while learning Latin should reinforce the future moment of overcoming that difficulty and experiencing pleasure.

It depends how many steps removed away the goal is, which requires prolonging some satisfaction or dealing with difficulty and something unpleasant... If there will be too much of the unpleasant... There is no point in even beginning.


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                              veritates amandæ sunt,
                              sic ideo necesse est:
                              res maxima amanda est.
                      potus sitis bene scimus
                cum nos id adeo explet,               
              cum alto hic movet imus:
                res maxima omnis amor.

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