Impulse vs Circumspection.

If you’re an impulsive person, you tend to go for what you want rather than what a considered opinion would deem the best option. So, knowing that, you sometimes stop and tell yourself ‘You mustn’t be impulsive about this. You must exercise caution and think about it.’ And that’s what you do. Only you don’t, not really. What you actually do is spend the thinking time ingeniously listing all the real or contrived reasons why going for what you want is the best option. Then you go for what you want.

So, you might just as well be impulsive in the first place and avoid the unnecessary waste of thinking time.

Fortunately, I don’t always agree with myself.