olympiadis wrote:
StarTrekker wrote:
My suspicion is that it is tied in with our black and white thinking patterns: there are the things we know, are familiar with, and can perform reliably, and then there's chaos, and we have no way of bridging the gap, to allow some structure to the chaos. At least that's what it's like for me; changing up my routine makes me very anxious, because then all bets are off; if one thing changes, there's no telling what else is going to change as well, and I have no way of knowing whether I'll be able to tolerate the change, so I try to keep everything exactly the same, or, barring that, I plan every detail of a new activity so that everything is accounted for and surprises are as minimised as possible; I'm a lot like KoR in that I don't handle unpredictability well.
You realize that when one little thing changes it can cause a cascade and chain-reaction where many things are changed from that point on. I think this is something we know intuitively through observation of the real world.
Yes, this is often why I get stressed with routines and schedules, because once one thing goes wrong, it feels like everything is messed up, and then I have a very hard time sticking to it. The problem I have is that I usually avoid routines and schedules altogether in order to avoid the stress when they don't go accordingly, but then I don't get anything done unless I have a plan.
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"It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important."
- Sherlock Holmes
17 Sep 2014, 1:16 am
