What is it?
Failure to act in accordance to one’s best judgement. Major forces involved in causing it include executive dysfunction, fallacies, etc
Causes
- Temporarily believing that one action is preferable to another.
- May further be traced to difficulty in deterministic judgement
- Fallacies
Curbing Akrasia the pragmatic way
- Practising mindfulness
- Keeping track of frequent akratic behavior
- Analysing the cues and reasons behind impactful/frequent akrasia
- Anticipating possible akrasia, and keeping workarounds handy
- for example, it’s clear that in a networking event I am better off pushing myself to interact with more people - but credit to my social anxiety and introversion, I could very likely pull off. a simple counteractive tactic could be counting to 5 before without-thinking I interact with someone