A Healthy and Discerning Mind Does Not Require Psychology

The decisions that operate effectively under uncertainty are precautionary and non-intervening in nature.

They don’t attempt to describe and control the inner workings of complex phenomena. They admit the limits of causal knowledge and instead act on the surface, where actionable information exists.

These are decisions based on true rationality, not faux causality and mechanistic theory.

This is also true of emotions and decisions. The incessant analysis of one’s emotions is of the same pseudoscience that pretends to understand causal mechanisms of complexity. Emotions, after all, are the hallmarks of our mind’s complexity.

The psychological scrutiny of emotions is naively intervening and full of narrative fallacy. It digs into things that cannot be understood through digging. It tries to reverse engineer what was never engineered. A completely wrong framework forced mechanically into a system that isn’t mechanistic.

Your best decisions in life do not attempt to interpret feelings. They act with awareness of feelings, but not analysis of them, nor narratives about them. They are precautionary and non-intervening with respect to emotions.

A healthy and discerning mind does not require psychology, it requires a rational calibration to complexity.