Choices and Consequences

I'm a huge fan of the psychological theories of B.F. Skinner and Ivan Pavlov.  Freud?  I think he was a misogynistic narcissist obsessed with his mother and his penis.

I could type on and on about the different psychological theories and what makes people tick.  Here's the truth:  NOBODY KNOWS FOR CERTAIN.  The human brain is too complex to try to figure out why people do what they do.  Granted, we have made strides in understanding chemical imbalances in the brain and how to deal with it.  Still,  discussion of the different psychological theories always segues into nature vs. nurture and the lot.

People have devoted their entire lives into trying to understand the human brain and related behavior.  Frustrating.  It's always open to argument.  However, B.F. Skinner and Ivan Pavlov dumbed it down for practical use for the masses.  We are no different than the dogs he trained.  Wait.  I will say that dogs are better than humans.  My point is that forget the motivation behind why people do what they do.  There is no hard and fast answer; just a bunch of arguable psychobabble.  It's all about choices and consequences.

Choices are easy.  It's the consequences that suck.  See, the problem is that most of us don't like our own choices.  Oh well, that's where the learning comes in -- or should come in.  We should not be  excused from our crappy choices.  We should be rewarded for good choices.  Yup.  Animal training applied to humans for this zoo of a world.  Woof  Woof