Recognizing Compulsion

Recognizing Compulsion

• Desperation to take action now?
• Acting makes happy, or just less agitated?
• In concrete terms,
  • why need to take action?
  • what is genuine goal?
• Envision the worst plausible scenario
• Justification : Reason or rationalization?
• If goal fails, feel happy about action?

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Need for “now!” suggests agitation about present

Note exploitation of “now” by ads