[Singletoned]

> Hello. I am rational developer. I am very clever and very rational. Devoid of emotion. Oh what is this? [Something has changed that I don't like]. What is this bubbling feeling in me? An emotional response? No way. I am rational. Therefore these changes must be objectively stupid and dumb and wrong. Let me explain why.

I certainly do this a lot.

I'm going to put that paragraph on a postcard and put it up in my office to try to remind me about it.

(It would also be helpful to come up with a name for this phenomenon).

[tiagod]

>It would also be helpful to come up with a name for this phenomenon

I believe it would be called rationalization[0]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationalization_(psychology)

[sbuk]

I highly recommend reading "Who Moved My Cheese?" By Dr Spencer Johnson. I'm not one for self-help books, but this really did make me think about how I look at change generally.

[enneff]

We all do it a lot. We are primary emotional beings and we go around pretending we are rational. Life gets a lot easier and more comprehensible when you start paying attention to it.

[girvo]

I think anyone who thinks they don’t do this should think again, and refer to the postcard. Myself included!