Friday, September 09, 2011

Cognitive Dissonance


The title has a ring to it, but sounds more complicated then it is actually. I call it Mental Rule Four (MR4), "Don't let the left hand know what the right hand is doing." MR4 gives the mind time to occupy itself when it doesn't know how to solve a problem. Every problem doesn't have an immediate solution. TS's term might be "Distracted from distraction by distraction."
Money is a another example of this dichotomy. It seems to me that in the micro world if a person doesn't manage money, than money manages them. But in the Macro world, a person consumed by money management loses his way entirely.

3 comments:

ColleenQ said...

I believe you would actually call it "MRIV", because, to carry it further, the left brain always likes to throw a little Latin in the mix.

TQ said...

I really like that Colleen! During the cold war rockets with multiple warheads had an acronym that was quite similar.

Erin Q. Hartman said...

Never stop writing love EQ