Friday 31 August 2012

Discrepancies

 Discrepancies between actual behaviour and intent exist, but their meaning is quite complex and far from being easily decipherable. If you see a contradiction between someone's proclaimed intentions and their actual strategies, you will figure out they’re not doing what they claim to be doing, but have some other desired goal. That is a logical deduction.

The discrepancy between claim concerning intention and actual action could have quite a few explanations, however:.

1. Misunderstanding one’s actual goals and what is required in order to attain them.

2. Misunderstanding as to what one’s goals *ought* to be. One has mistaken goals and is not meeting one’s proclaimed goals, because one is actually in touch with something closer to one’s heart.

3. Alternatively, someone is obviously not facing what they know to be true. But if they know it to be true, this already implies some authenticity on some level.

4. Someone doesn’t actually have goals. The true narcissist, lacking the will or capacity for introspection, makes it up as they go along — leading to many discrepancies between proclaimed intent and actual act.

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