Emotional ROI

[OrLevitate]

How I feel about/during life/experiences has been my guiding star for a while. Every decision for me ultimately comes down to how I'll feel about it. It took a good deal of active introspection to be able to really define or understand my different emotions. I used to be quite emotionally withdrawn.

The emotional guiding star having been internalized as my operating system (or whatever you'd like to label it), I can better understand now how everyones personal mental constructs affect their elicited emotions at any time. And that these constructs cafn be altered with critical thought about the non-emotional source of the elicited emotion. I.e. a muslim woman feeling guilty or slutty about showing her face (idk how accurate that example is; its heuristic). Ultimately though, its about how you feel, and the thinking is a tool to reconcile feeling with circumstances for the better... for me.

So, how does intpf feel, or rather what do you think?

Is thinking the ultimate guide, or your emotions? Don't write me off just yet, because aren't your diligently thought out frameworks of perception making you feel.. some positive feeling (pride, accomplishment, relief, safety etc)?

 

[Emerson]

In my opinion, one's mental framework is everything. What one thinks ultimately, I believe, leads to how one processes emotions.

For example, winning a million dollars, since many people are emotionally tied to money, may be life-changing and the greatest thing in the world to someone who is poor, causing them to be emotionally euphoric.

In a counter-example, winning a million dollars when one is already a multimillionaire, whose net worth exceeded five-hundred million for example, would be a pleasant surprise and may make that person's day, but that's about as long as it would last.

How we register certain events or actions with emotion is dependent on our mindset. To the poor fellow who wins the money, he is emotionally distraught- in a good way. To the rich fellow, he gets to tell his wife that something cool happened that day.

Same sort of scenario exists when the opposite happens- losing money, for example.

Donald Trump, who I personally am not very fond of, lost billions of dollars, or the equivalent of over fifty percent, at least, of his net worth.

Most people would be devastated if they lost that much- many have, A.K.A the great recession.

Now the difference in mentality can be illustrated much more clearly as now two different reactions have occurred for Donald and most people.

Donald Trump, who had been accustomed to being a multi-billionaire, immediately set out to reclaim his fortune. Being a multimillionaire or billionaire after knowing the life of a multi-billionaire is inadequate to say the least because the financial thermostat in Trump's mind is not set for millions or one billion, it's set for billions. Sure enough, five years later, he's a multi-billionaire again.

As for the others who had lost a great majority of their assets in the great recession, most of them became scared and unwilling to reinvest in what made them more wealthy to begin with. Why? A difference in mental framework.

Scarcity vs. Abundance.

Fear vs. Courage.

Failure vs. Success.

One takes precedence over the other. With money, it's more clearly illustrated, but it is also distinguishable in everyday life examples too, such as the Muslim example. Her mental framework doesn't allow her to reveal her face without her feeling slutty, as opposed to her American counter-part who may be barely covering up her body which makes her feel empowered.

A difference in mindset is apparent in even that example. I can go on with many more examples but I believe the picture is quite clear at this point, so I'll leave off with a quote~


"It isn't what you have, who you are, where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it."
- Dale Carnegie

 

[OrLevitate]

Hey dude! Better view over here, less smokestacks. You'll have to stand like 15 feet away from me if come to visit though, unless you're on my right side. Haha