What makes us tick? We are complex beings. Humans are certainly complex. It would be difficult enough to understand our complexity if we all acted in a similar manner in any given circumstance. But we don’t. It’s impossible. We are not robots. It is difficult to predict our actions with certainty every time. We program our responses according to a whole raft of emotive forces such as our mood, how we currently feel about the people around us, our sense of well-being, home circumstances, work issues, finance, health and so on. The list is endless and any one thing can and does affect our predictability.
Additionally, we each have our individual traits, our personal needs, and our modes operand, which we continue to develop throughout our lifetimes, and which will be impacted by the various circumstances in which we find ourselves at any particular time.
No, we are not predictable. Even those of us who repeat their actions time and time again in the same manner will unexpectedly do it a different way at some point in time.
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