ouinon wrote:
If not the absence of a "point" what do you think is the reason for your or other people's chronic/overwhelming inertia or inactivity?
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One of the reasons is excessive difficulty in the execution of a task. I'm quite happy to start the dishes if they are stacked, ready to go, but if they need to be arranged on the bench, it's a struggle to make myself do it because it is very difficult and even trying to imagine it out in my mind is strenuous and largely unsuccessful.
I cannot imagine (as a series of steps) how to start and move sequentially through the task, so I will find myself picking up something from the bench I am clearing, but there's nowhere on the bench I am moving things to, causing me to have to put the item/s back down where they started, and try to clear a space on the bench I am moving dishes to.
Quite what to move, and how (to create space), is then a very difficult and intellectually strenuous activity. If everything is sufficiently "higgly-piggly", it's difficult to even get my brain to make sense of what my eyes are "taking in". It just looks like a jumble of "stuff" rather individual things, that I know what to do with. I have to concentrate very hard to stack the dishes, and although physically it's a low-effort task, mentally, it's very arduous, and often enough, quite an uncomfortable task.
A lot of the time, when I experience inertia/passivity, it can be traced to the mental/intellectual difficulty of tasks, particularly tasks requiring coordination/organization.