“You think too much”: we often envy this friend who, in order to make big decisions like small ones, launches herself without hesitation, nourished by what some call “the little inner voice” or, therefore, instinct.
However, by thinking of instinct, we often imagine the emergence of a primary reflex in contradiction with a form of emotional detachment that enlightened decision-making imposes.
It is because in the definition that we make of it, this flair is generally associated with a primitive or animal reaction;
in any case to something which would precede the will and which it would be necessary to tame in order to affirm one's free will, even one's freedom.
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It is also not totally wrong to think that instinct hides multiple faults.
To believe in it too much would amount to being totally subjected to it.
Whether in pleasure, fear or even hunger… Always listening to one's emotions and reacting to them would keep us in a form of satisfying comfort, but at the same time…
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