Does Cognitive Dissonance ring a bell to you? It may be or not but it sure be wise and beneficial to know about it. If H. sapiens is one of a kind of species that is complex and sophisticated enough to establish its dictatorship over this planet, it could imply a deeper understanding of it exerts a more powerful grasp over our own survival than a variety of other technological advances.
In layman chats about human behavioural predictions, we hear assertions that it is usually impossible or technically impractical to accurately predict how a person will behave given a set of constantly changing parameters such as environmental, emotional, intentional and so and so. How true is that?
Recent advancement in the fields of psychology signifies nothing but only the greater chasm we have to fully comprehend us ourselves. There are so much potential in mining the knowledge about our own thinking. See how Steve Job manages to turn around the fate of Apple by just designing a few human-friendly and laziness-tweaked devices? What he did was an art as artistry is always a precursor and a plain convenient way to express something not fully comprehended to be designated as engineering.
It is both aspirational and inspiring when I tried to apply a structure on the basis of psychology study to my usual thoughts and reasonings. A very basic Cognitive Dissonance theory could sheds more lights about decision making processes than you banging your head on the wall a zillion times, pun intended.
Want to know more about Cognitive Dissonance? As usual, google it up. Or if you believe in me, this thing is just like your inner Angel and Devil seducing you in doing something :)
