Fun Driven and Anger Driven

2012-12-22 context - Anger is a driving force - Anger is a form of self-pity

I used to think anger was toxic.

• But the claim that “anger at the gap between the ideal and the reality is what drives improvement.”

So what drives me to avoid anger?

• I think it’s an “interesting” emotion.
• There is a gap between the ideal and the reality in the world.
  • Anger-driven people get angry at gaps and try to change reality.
  • Interest-driven people say, “That’s interesting,” and try to look at it more closely.
    • For example, my human bug collection is a collection of cases where real people are not behaving ideally.
    • When you happen to see a discourse on social networking sites that you think is strange, most of the time you don’t directly try to correct the person’s behavior, you just collect it as an example.
      • I was right when I was young: How I stopped throwing masakari.
  • After careful observation in an interest-driven manner, we often wonder, “What if we did this? What if we do this here to solve this problem? and “What if we did this?
    • Then you’ll want to give it a try.
    • This is not a desire to improve the status quo, but a desire to validate understanding
      • So when you say, “I tried it and it didn’t work,” you may be satisfied with “Oh well, this method doesn’t work.
      • Lacks the ability to tackle problems with persistence
    • You’re fun-driven, but there are tenacious people out there? Why is that?
    • → Interesting if you stick with it. and I know empirically that

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