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Today is a very good day and my brain is running high speed so apologies in advance for cluttering up your FL
( Preparedness and potential crisis thoughts )
These thoughts have me asking myself why I am not doing more now to work for positive social change. These thoughts also have me considering the relative virtue of hope versus fear as motivating forces. I personally think that hope motivates far better than fear. What I hear missing from many discussions of the future is hope. Fear as a motivating force is reactive. Changing based on the avoidance the of negative consequences can result in positive changes but the experience of changing is likely to be experienced in terms of loss and deprivation.
Changes based on hope are proactive. They can also result in positive outcomes and have a much better chance of being positive experiences in and of themselves. (I should look up the research related to this topic it would be an interesting idea to flesh out in an article/essay (what I would do with said essay, I have no idea but it would be interesting and might lead to something useful). I wish I could find a way to construct classes built on positive motivation rather than avoidance of an undesired grade.
( Local foods and fun in the kitchen )
( Preparedness and potential crisis thoughts )
These thoughts have me asking myself why I am not doing more now to work for positive social change. These thoughts also have me considering the relative virtue of hope versus fear as motivating forces. I personally think that hope motivates far better than fear. What I hear missing from many discussions of the future is hope. Fear as a motivating force is reactive. Changing based on the avoidance the of negative consequences can result in positive changes but the experience of changing is likely to be experienced in terms of loss and deprivation.
Changes based on hope are proactive. They can also result in positive outcomes and have a much better chance of being positive experiences in and of themselves. (I should look up the research related to this topic it would be an interesting idea to flesh out in an article/essay (what I would do with said essay, I have no idea but it would be interesting and might lead to something useful). I wish I could find a way to construct classes built on positive motivation rather than avoidance of an undesired grade.
( Local foods and fun in the kitchen )
