The fact is that the majority of our thoughts and actions are on autopilot. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing either. Our habits, routines, impulses, and reactions carry us through our lives so we don’t have to stop and think about it every time we wipe our ass or start a car.
As it turns out, it’s the last sentence. It’s not just that we can’t control our actions, it’s that we can’t control how we are thinking. We can’t stop ourselves from going “Hmm… every time my sister calls me and asks for money, I end up drinking a lot of vodkas. Perhaps it is a coincidence that she now owns a liquor store in Arizona.
Perhaps its something else. Possibly our new habit of thinking that our reactions should be automatic. We cant stop ourselves from going Hmm every time my sister calls me and asks for money, I end up drinking a lot of vodkas.. Perhaps it is something else, but I am pretty sure the last one is right.
Its easy to get caught up in the language game, but we all do. I read the last sentence as “I am pretty sure the last one is right.” because it’s so precise, and because it was so clear when we read it. It’s as if every sentence is saying, “I am going to do this, so I am going to go right there and do it.
And that may be true, but there is a big difference between that and the words you use when you are actually doing something. We need to stop thinking about our actions as if they are precise and specific. We all have a lot of them that are just general. And we need to stop over analyzing them. So I’d say don’t worry about the word precision, just use the words you want to use.
I know, I know. I know. I know. I know.
We all have a lot of vague words in our vocabulary, and that can also be a great problem for our brains. In fact, some people have said that they have a “lack of confidence in language” because they feel it’s too vague and confusing. The problem is because we rely so much on language to make sense of our thoughts, we’ve become accustomed to it and it can make us feel really stupid, or we can be overwhelmed by it.
There is a reason why computer programmers are required to write programs so that they can be tested before being released. In the same way that a surgeon doesn’t want to write a program that will fail, a computer programmer wants to write a program that will pass all of his tests. So it is with human language. Words are as important as our thoughts, so the more precision your words have, the more likely you are to make sense of what you are saying.
The same is true for computers. They need to be precise to function. The more precise your words are, the more likely you are to make sense of what you are saying. Even though the exact word order may be different, the meaning of the sentence is the same. Words like “lion” and “leopard” are the same thing, but when you are writing a description of the difference between the two, you would need to use two different words.
