Do you think people these days react/do things more with their emotions rather than rationality?

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[Anonymous]

The only way to do something long term is with your emotions aka your subconscious mind. A person can do something using their rational mind for a little bit but if they don't impress that thing on their subconscious mind it won't turn into a habit.

Most try that approach; it's called forcing.

I think what you are really trying to say is that people don't choose what they impress on their subconscious these days. They just don't think. They work solely habitually aka react. Thinking isn't mental activity caused by your senses. Thinking is when you choose a thought or an idea that wasn't inspired by you're seeing in front of you. You think in a way that leads to good results. The key is to get your thinking and emotions lined up and that's gonna control your behavior long term. In order to do that you have to change the way you are looking at things. You have to look at it in a certain way. Whatever way you are looking at X is gonna control your perception and emotions toward that idea.

People often try to manipulate the system by getting motivation from an outside source; when really the problem is their perception of the things. They need an outside source to help them mask what's going on inside. This is why people often think motivation is the key to discipline but it's not.

So emotion is very important. Without emotion we wouldn't do anything.

Emotion isn't the issue. It's that people aren't choosing how they feel about certain things, that's the problem.

[Anonymous]

Kind of. But to be fair this is the social media generation now. Facts and truth aren't even necessary anymore.

[Billlewis]

That's always been the case, with everything.