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Often portray “want to do” as if it were a set
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This picture could be misleading.
- Implicitly assumes “the existence of ‘wanting to do’ as a set of things”.
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There is not a “set of things you want to do,” but rather a “wantonness axis.
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The one you want to do the most is chosen from the Choice of Action that comes up in your consciousness.
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So [Expanding what you can do creates what you want to do.
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Given that, the question “What do you want to do?” may itself be misleading.
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Think about something you don’t want to do.”
- Advice often given to people who “can’t find what they want to do.”
- By verbalizing what you don’t want to do, you can understand what you do want to do the other way around.
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Whether I want to do something or not, I’m doing something.
- I may be a slacker, but I’m not a Twitter user.
- The problem is that the “doing” isn’t that much fun.
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Maybe “What is fun” would be a more useful question?
- Or more specifically, “What did you do in the past when you felt like having fun?”
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People who say, “[I can’t find what I want to do.
- Cases with few options for action in the first place → see and learn about various options
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It is misleading to think that “should do” (the set of things that others thought would be good to do) or “be made” (the set of things that can be done) is a set, but “want to do” is the same.
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