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Take the easy course, then life gets hard. Take the hard course, then life gets easy. < Back D08 Pain Principle List of all principles Take the easy course, then life gets hard. Take the hard course, then life gets easy. Image: Pixabay - Sonyuser (click on meme to see source image) Summary The more you indulge yourself to avoid the discomforts of fully resolving your needs, the more your unresolved needs result in lingering pain. The more you face upfront the intense discomforts necessary to fully resolve your needs, the more you will enjoy some long-term fruits and suffer less lingering pain. Your life typically reveals a pattern of favoring one or the other. Description Which do you think is more likely? You pick the low hanging fruit of an easier path in life because of your moral failings. OR You would pursue the challenging path of resolving needs no matter how difficult at first, if this option was more open to you. Anankelogy Anankelogy introduces you to various need-experience orientations . These are relatively fixed ways you experience your familiar needs. This principle speaks to your “easement orientation ”. You’re either oriented to resolve your needs over relieving their pain. You take the hard course first. Or you’re oriented to relieve your pain over resolving the needs causing your pain. You take the easy path first. The less you can fully resolve your needs, the less you can function. Every unresolved need emotionally warns you of its threat to your ability to function. The less you can function over time, the more your pain builds up. The longer you must adjust to this mounting pain, the more you get used to coping with this manageable level of discomfort. If you cannot consistently access what would restore you to full functioning, but must settle on some alternative or substitute to get you by, you naturally become oriented to seek relief over resolving your pounding needs. In other words, it is not always simple to merely choose the challenging path upfront, to decide to endure the difficulties inherent when fully resolving your needs. Your life situation shapes your orientation to your needs. Options to live optimally may remain beyond your reach. Need-response exists to give you optimal choices. So you can accept, with little risk of falling flat, the difficult path upfront to fully resolve needs. Need-response Here is where we apply this principle to improve our need-responding skills. We contrast popular norms creating a feel-reactive problem with our preferable need-responsive solution . Reactive Problem Game theory and rational choice theory provide a helpful framework for understanding the specific choices we make in life. But this approach can offer only part of the picture. Need-response recognizes the role of needs as they actually occur, with empirical evidence. No matter how much you aspire to take the high road of nobly suffering to resolve needs, you likely find yourself having to settle for less. You needless feel guilty if you repeatedly take the law road of self-indulgence to cope somehow with your load of pain of unresolved needs. Responsive Solution Western culture biases us to primarily think of our individual choices. This lens can blind us from how our choices are limited by our social environments. Those able to access more resources to more fully resolve their needs often assume others enjoy about the same level of access. Need-response incentivizes those with greater access to resources to improve accessibility to others less fortunate. Instead of relying on political generalizations or impersonal policies to spread wealth, need-response personally connects the advantaged with the relatively less advantaged. Need-response offers the potential for all to take the challenging path to more fully resolve needs. And offers opportunity for the more advantaged to take the challenging path to support the full resolution of needs of others with a mutually beneficial conciliatory process. Because outrage is never as potent as the powerful incentive of love to mutually resolve each other’s affected needs. Responding to your needs How does this principle speak to your experience of needs? Post in our Engagement forum your thoughtful response to one of these: I’ve tried to take this nobler path of accepting difficulties upfront, but find myself repeatedly pulled back to ease my unrelenting pain. I’ve tried this approach of taking the hard road first, but I can’t say it helped me much. I once took the more challenging route of hitting a problem head on and it turned out great. I already orient my life to take the challenging road first, and let me tell you how it really is. Instead of selecting one of these, post your own engagement feedback about your experience with the subject of this principle. Remember the aim is to improve our responsiveness to each other’s needs, toward their full resolution. If you’re new at posting here, first check the guide below. Engage this principle in our forum Engagement guide Any visitor to the Engagement forum can view all posts. So do keep that in mind when posting. Sign up or sign in to comment on these posts and to create your own posts. Using this platform assumes you agree to our terms of use and privacy policy . Remember to keep the following in mind: Quote the principle you are responding to, and its identifier letter & number. Let’s be specific. Demonstrate need-responsiveness in your interactions here. Let’s respect each other. Engage supportive feedback from others on this platform. Let’s grow together. Together, let’s improve our need-responsiveness . Together, let’s spread some love . 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It is against the grain of law to fully resolve needs. < Back G04 Law Principle List of all principles It is against the grain of law to fully resolve needs. Image: Pixabay – JonnyBelvedere (click on meme to see source image) Summary Laws remain rather vague to apply widely, often focusing on harm reduction. The more dependent on laws to reduce harm or a perceived threat of harm, the more you become a legalist instead of responsive. You then become less attentive to fully resolving needs. Only by properly resolving each other’s needs can we remove threats of harm. The more you acclimate to laws, public policies and social norms to deliver familiar forms of comfort, the more you resist the more responsive who endure the natural discomforts of fully resolving needs. The more the responsive go beyond minimal standards of law to fully resolve needs, the more legalists push back to protect their familiar pain-avoidant norms. Description Which do you think is more likely? Hold accountable anyone defying social norms. OR Better understand why some violations of norms are better than kneejerk compliance. Anankelogy The “law” does not exist to apply to every specific need you have. No law requires you to breathe, or dictates you must first show appreciation for others before you expect their appreciation of you, or obliges you to sleep laying down instead of standing up. Laws apply only to general situations. Covering too many details risks making a law inapplicable or unenforceable. No law requires you to put your keys somewhere you can remember. No law requires you to submit an itinerary to local authorities stating what you specifically expect you’ll be doing every minute of next Tuesday. No law requires you to know exactly when you’ll be using the restroom in the course of the next several days. No law requires you to be healthier a year from now. Anankelogy recognizes how laws must remain vague, impersonal, and adversarial. Laws are kept vague to apply to almost any situation. Which risks being too general to apply to you and your specific needs. Laws are kept impersonal to avoid partiality. Which risks alienating you and your specific needs. Laws are kept adversarial in their enforcement to punish offenders. Which risks premature hostility toward you and your specific needs. Anankelogy’s answer to these built-in limits of law is need-response . Need-response Need-response prioritizes our inflexible needs over our flexible laws. The needs came first. And laws can never keep up with our every need. Nor should they. As Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn pointed out: “I have spent all my life under a Communist regime and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is also less than worthy of [humanity]. A society based on the letter of the law and never reaching anything higher fails to take advantage of the full range of human possibilities.” In other words, legalism impedes human flourishing. The opposite extreme of lawlessness is legalistic tyranny, which ironically hinders your capacity to faithfully oblige every rule. Reactive Problem Anankelogy identifies this excessive role of rules as toxic legalism . You either respond effectively to needs or settle for legalistic norms… to avoid dealing with people’s specific needs with comforting generalities, to ease discomfort of vulnerably relating to messy needs, and then expect established norms to provide an easier path to easing the pain of our unmet needs. Motivated reasoning biases legalists to preserve the familiar yet stifling status quo. To maintain this easier path, legalists tend to resist… any belief-disturbing nuance, discomforting engagement, and then prematurely oppose others outside of their norms of legally privileged pain avoidance. In short, norm-compliant legalists frequently resist those with the wisdom and answer to remove causes of pain . They’re often trapped in a zone of mounting pain , and dare not rock the boat lest they risk more pain. Such legalists easily slide into the creeping normalcy of managing their gradually increasing load of emotional pain. By not recognizing the reported needs behind these uncomfortable emotions, they ironically suffer more emotional pain as those unmet needs painfully insist on some attention. But the more they overlook the needs that their pain exists to report, the more they’re prone to fall back into their managed levels of pain . Legalists tend to resist full wellness. The pain required easily triggers discomfort they feel they must avoid. To them, good is defined generally as avoiding pain. Painful wellness efforts seem bad . They often react to painful norm-transgressing efforts to fully resolve needs. Responsive Solution While no one sits above the law, no law sits above the needs for which they exist to serve . You cannot easily change your inflexible needs to fit flexible laws. The more can directly resolve needs, the less dependent on norms or authority . Need-response holds us to a higher standard than mere legal compliance: resolving needs to improve measurable wellness outcomes. Such as reducing anxiety and depression. And enabling more our potential to be reached. Need-response can inspire us to stretch our comfort zone , to equip us to resolve more needs. So we can courageously endure the discomfort of stepping outside of comforting norms. Instead of selfishly trying to avoid the mounting pain of our unresolved needs, need-response incentivizes us to honor each other’s needs as our own. The more we step outside of ourselves to meaningfully help others to resolve their needs, the more empowered they are to honor our needs. You can call this love . Responding to your needs How does this principle speak to your experience of needs? Post in our Engagement forum your thoughtful response to one of these: How can we tell the difference between selfish norm-violating and responsive norm-violating? What do you say about those who get punished by legalists for trying to resolve more needs? How can we measure legalist efforts and responsive wellness efforts? How can you resist the government authorities who enforcing stiflingly anti-wellness norms? Instead of selecting one of these, post your own engagement feedback about your experience with the subject of this principle. Remember the aim is to improve our responsiveness to each other’s needs, toward their full resolution. If you’re new at posting here, first check the guide below. 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A natural need is an objective fact. < Back A01 Foundational Principle List of all principles A natural need is an objective fact. Image: Pixabay – Valiphotos (click on meme to see source image) Summary The more you drill down to the beginning of an experienced need, the more you find what exists prior to any human intervention. You don’t merely believe you must have water or that you need a friend, you experience these needs as essential to your capacity to function. Your ability to function after quenching a thirst or leaning on a friend exist independent of subjective feelings, as objective facts. The less your natural needs resolve, the less you can objectively function. Description Which do you think is more likely? Needs are too subjective for any scientific inquiry. OR An aspect of needs exists outside of subjective experience, allowing for scientific inquiry. Anankelogy Anankelogy isolates that part of your needs which occurs outside of any subjective experience of them. You feel thirsty when your body requires more water, but that requirement for water occurs as an objective fact. You only subjectively feel thirsty after the objective fact of your body requiring more water. Likewise, you feel lonely when requiring help from others to do things you objectively cannot do for yourself. If you cannot get anyone to help you climb out of hole, your ability to continue functioning as before objectively diminishes. Needs come first . Emotions follow to convey such needs . Once the need fully resolves, there’s no longer any cause for such emotion . Every experienced need first emerges as an objective fact about your ability to function. Your body then reports such needs in your subjective experience of emotions. Your emotions suggest what you can quickly do to ease that need, if necessary. Often with little if any regard for the needs of others. Anankelogy distinguishes between core needs for functioning and what we do about such needs that we conventionally also label as needs. I may say I need a glass of water, but more accurately I need water that I prefer to be provided in a glass. Since I can get that water from a bottle or direct from a water fountain, anankelogy identifies these as preferences and not literally as needs. If there is any flexibility, you can "prefer" one thing over another and still objectively function. Your need for water is inflexible . How to get that water is flexible. So anankelogy speaks of “inflexible needs ” to point to these core needs . Anankelogy appreciates resources to resolve your core needs exist less flexibly that how we access such resources. And who should access, you or somebody else , exists far more flexibly. This helpful distinction allows the academic discipline of anankelogy to better understand our needs. We can now delay gratification. We can postpone the urge to ease our discomforting needs so we can better understand the full gamut of our experience of needs. Need-response We can now describe what is happening with a set of needs without rushing to insist what should be done about such needs. Need-response applies this discipline when challenging the privileged norm of relieving pain of unmet needs by enduring the discomfort it takes to resolve needs. Once resolved, the body no longer has cause to use pain to warn of a threat to functioning that no longer exists. Reactive Problem As long as we assume all needs stem from subjective experience, we tend to link each need to our choices. If only we made better rational choices, we wouldn’t be in so much pain. Or do goes our assumptions. While volition plays a role, you never choose to be thirsty. You never choose to be hungry. Or to be lonely. Each of these starts not with some subjective experience from our choices, but from an objective change in your ability to function regardless of your choices. Your choices can influence when you feel thirsty. But you will eventually require water to restore your body’s fluid equilibrium. You cannot choose to simply ignore your body’s demand for water and still be able to objectively function. Responsive Solution The more we suspend our reliance upon impersonal rules and rational choices, the more we can get back to addressing our many overlooked needs. Instead of stumbling into disappointment after disappointment, we can do much more to dynamically engage each other’s specific needs. Need-response counters normalized alienation of impersonal rules with mutual respect for one another’s engaged needs. Need-response provides tools lacking in all of the other professions for fully resolving our needs. In the process, need-response holds the powerful accountable to the results of their influence upon our vulnerable needs. The more you allow need-response to fully resolve our needs, the more we can all function individually and collectively. The more needs we resolve, the more problems clear up . The more we resolve our needs, the more of our potential we can reach. The more we respect each other’s needs, the more we can spread around much needed love. Responding to your needs How does this principle speak to your experience of needs? Post in our Engagement forum your thoughtful response to one of these: Certainly there are aspects of needs beyond the scope of scientific inquiry. Could this apply to philosophy and other areas currently regarded as mostly subjective? How could need-response answer the decline in trust in our institutions? I can see room for abuse by bad faith actors insisting their subjectivity has some objective core. Instead of selecting one of these, post your own engagement feedback about your experience with the subject of this principle. Remember the aim is to improve our responsiveness to each other’s needs, toward their full resolution. If you’re new at posting here, first check the guide below. Engage this principle in our forum Engagement guide Any visitor to the Engagement forum can view all posts. So do keep that in mind when posting. Sign up or sign in to comment on these posts and to create your own posts. Using this platform assumes you agree to our terms of use and privacy policy . Remember to keep the following in mind: Quote the principle you are responding to, and its identifier letter & number. Let’s be specific. Demonstrate need-responsiveness in your interactions here. Let’s respect each other. Engage supportive feedback from others on this platform. Let’s grow together. Together, let’s improve our need-responsiveness . Together, let’s spread some love . 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Each emotion occurs as an objective fact. < Back A04 Foundational Principle List of all principles Each emotion occurs as an objective fact. Image: Pixabay – srkcalifano (click on meme to see source image) Summary Almost everything we learn about emotions points to how we subjectively experience them. Prior to being evoked, each emotion points to a predictable situation or need that emotion conveys. Anger, for example, predictably follows something genuinely unacceptable, and never produces joy instead. The objective "what" of each emotion remains distinct from its subjective "how". Description Which do you think is more likely? Emotions only exist as subjective experiences. OR Emotions become subjective only after objectively triggered by some need independent of awareness. Anankelogy While each emotion conveys subjective matter for how to interpret and perhaps respond to the stimuli, it's the same emotion that predictably follows an evoked objectively occurring need. Fear, for example, objectively occurs when faced with an overwhelming threat. After an overwhelming threat, you never feel aware of it by feeling disappointed or exhausted or lonely. Other needs predicate each of those emotions. How we respond to such emotions remains rich with subjectivity. We can never choose to "unfeel" the objectively occurring need. Survival relies on the predictability of need-alerting emotions, occurring objectively. Need-response Need-response values each emotion as a conveyer of a particular need. Each emotion reliably alerts us to a particular need. Which need-response recognizes as an objective fact. Sure, subjective poor choices may have triggered the need. But once evoked, the need and accompanying emotion occur as objective facts. They cannot be stuffed down by reasoning or compliance to laws. Reactive Problem Unpleasant emotions compel us to do something, to remove such displeasure. Pain prompts us to remove a threat, or move away from the threat. Obsessive cravings compel us to replenish what's missing with whatever we find accessible that will make the cravings go away. Without prosocial options readily available, we either react offensively toward others or suffer in self-suppressed silence. Wellness then predictably declines. Responsive Solution Need-response improves respect for each other's emotions, no matter how intense they are. The more intense, the more urgent to resolve the underlying need or needs. Instead of resorting to rationality or norms to restrain emotions, need-response goes to the heart of the matter: the unresolved need or needs at the core. Then incentivizes each other to recognize the underlying need. Then explore all impediments to resolve such needs. The aim is to resolve needs to remove cause for pain or cravings. Resolving each need predictably removes, or at least reduces, cause for pain. As the objectively occurring need objectively resolves, there is no more objective reason for the emotion to alert what is no longer there. Responding to your needs How does this principle speak to your experience of needs? Subjective perception plays a huge role in what emotion gets experienced. This objective aspect seems miniscule compared to the bulk of emotion's subjectivity. Even if true, we still need rules and rationality to keep emotions in check. Without its subjective elements, there'd be no emotions. Instead of selecting one of these, post your own. Engage this principle in our forum Engagement guide Any visitor to the Engagement forum can view all posts. So do keep that in mind when posting. Sign up or sign in to comment on these posts and to create your own posts. Using this platform assumes you agree to our terms of use and privacy policy . Remember to keep the following in mind: Quote the principle you are responding to, and its identifier letter & number. Let’s be specific. Demonstrate need-responsiveness in your interactions here. Let’s respect each other. Engage supportive feedback from others on this platform. Let’s grow together. Together, let’s improve our need-responsiveness . Together, let’s spread some love . See other principles in this category - Foundational - Basic - General - Pain - Conflict - Authority - Law - Love - Previous Facebook X (Twitter) WhatsApp LinkedIn Pinterest Copy link Next

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