A short and logical analysis of Emotional direction and Human will for the discerning reader

Credits : Sebastian Eriksson

          
                  It is said that emotions lends the drive or motivation for something to be accomplished. Like a director and limiter to rational thought, emotions have indirectly laid down the foundations of human civilization. The personality that describes a person is a mapping of his emotions to his actions. Every person will have a different mapping. In my case, while my actions are almost fully visible to anyone curious enough to observe, the same cannot be said of my emotions. If anyone were to label my psychological make up, there is a fair probability for a term like O.C.D (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) to pop up. Even though I prefer order to disorder, I'm not a stickler for perfection. Emotional conditioning over the years have enabled me to be relatively calm in the face of chaos as opposed to my earlier self. This has been achieved by building a mind structure based on logic thought that has been trained to see the rationality and logic in even the most absurd of ideas and situations. An ability to see order in chaos. Sometimes such an approach leads to emotional ambivalence which in turn reflects in not being able to act as expected in the real world. A workaround for this is to inculcate the ability to focus on a single idea so as to not get lost in a sea of contradictions. The challenge as always lies in finding the best possible idea that helps forward one's actions in one's best interests. This is more efficiently achieved by choosing the idea that is best suited to your strongest set of emotions/beliefs. Of course the building of a strong willed mind is a precursor for this plan of action to be successful. A strong will is a simple thing for someone who has attained it. Contrary to the belief that only gifted individuals possess this elusive "power", it should be in fact as basic to life as knowing how to walk or how to talk. The only catch being that, one must dedicate himself to learning the art of strong will for a required amount of time. Once learned, it is a highly useful asset that will stay with you and help you advance your actions and ideas in the desired direction. The implementation of the the best plan of action (selected by your emotional brain) is greatly aided by the presence of a strong will.

                   In a world that is obsessed with marks and intelligence, I had ample opportunities to cram my head with sufficient amounts of data-points which can be processed as required to make logical sense of the world. But one thing that was in lacking was the raw will power to seriously pursue the best ideas that emanated from it. Fortunately the human brain is much more capable than we think. Will power can be trained into our very own highly complex biological neural net. I believe the mind structure mapping of a highly motivated person can be achieved with a moderately disciplined regimen over a reasonable period of time.