{"id":2224375,"date":"2024-04-18T15:24:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T19:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-a-change-of-plans-causes-emotional-destabilization\/"},"modified":"2024-04-18T15:27:42","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T19:27:42","slug":"why-a-change-of-plans-causes-emotional-destabilization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-a-change-of-plans-causes-emotional-destabilization\/","title":{"rendered":"How Unexpected Changes Can Impact Your Emotional Wellbeing"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhy-a-change-of-plans-causes-emotional-destabilization%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2224375&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Dr. Jordan Peterson \u2064delves into how changes in our plans can lead \u2064to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-most-powerful-elites-really-dont-want-you-criticizing-them\/\" title=\"The Most Powerful Elites Really Don\u2019t Want You Criticizing Them\">emotional instability<\/a>. He \u200dexplains that\u2062 disruptions to our perceived path forward can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/san-francisco-store-resorts-to-extreme-measures-in-attempt-to-stop-rampant-shoplifting\/\" title=\"San Francisco store takes drastic action to combat 'widespread shoplifting\">trigger negative emotions<\/a> like frustration, disappointment, anger, and anxiety. Our emotional responses are intertwined with our perception of the world and our ability to navigate unexpected\u200b challenges. Dr. Jordan \u2062Peterson \u200dexplores\u2062 how alterations in our plans can evoke emotional turbulence, manifesting as frustration, disappointment,\u2064 anger, and anxiety. These reactions are closely linked to our worldview and our aptitude for handling unforeseen obstacles.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The following is a transcribed excerpt from one of Dr. Jordan Peterson\u2019s 2020 lectures. In this segment, he discusses how we perceive the world, what causes our emotions to be destabilized, why we <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/study-covid-causes-personality-changes\/\" title=\"Study: COVID Causes Personality Changes\">experience <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/crenshaw-victimhood-ideology-is-getting-worse-heres-what-we-can-do-to-fix-it\/\" title=\"CRENSHAW: Victimhood Ideology Is Getting Worse. Here\u2019s What We Can Do To Fix It\">negative emotion<\/a><\/a> when our plans change, and how our nervous system assess situations. You can <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/podcasts\/the-jordan-b-peterson-podcast\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">listen to<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  or <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/show\/the-jordan-b-peterson-podcast\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">watch<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  more from Dr. Peterson on DailyWire+.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We do not see objects, think about them, evaluate them, and then decide how to act on them \u2014 or, if we do, we do it rarely, slowly, and with a lot of thought. What we see, instead, are obstacles <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">or<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  pathways with tools that will move us forward. When there are no obstacles in front of you \u2014 when there is a nice flat road \u2014 you experience positive emotion. You think, \u201cThis is a task I can undertake. The sailing is clear. It is a good day.\u201d When there is an obstacle in front of you, you experience a little pang of disappointment and anxiety. You think, \u201cCan I make it around that obstacle?\u201d If you have done so before, you will think, fairly confidently, \u201cI can walk forward, and then circumvent the obstacle.\u201d It is a minor disruption to the perceptual set of skills you use to organize the world. It is a minor bit of chaos. If, however, you do not know how to engage in circumvention, then you would be unable to get from point A to point B; that would be a problem for your plan. When your perceptual set \u2014 the structure you are using to organize the world; the plan through which you are viewing the complexity of the world \u2014\u00a0reveals an inadequacy, then that destabilizes your emotions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Regardless, you need to be going somewhere, and there needs to be a pathway in order for you to feel good. If that plan is untenable or becomes destabilized, then you become flooded with negative emotion: frustration, disappointment, anger, and primarily anxiety. But all of those emotions sort of intermingle. You may feel anger because you have to fight your way through the obstacle; frustration because maybe you have to make a new plan; disappointment because you devoted work to the plan and it did not work out; and anxiety because now there are too many choices in front of you. So people do not like to have their plans disrupted. The reason for that is that their plans are directly associated with their emotional perception of the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That is a good thing to know: Your plans are directly associated with your emotional perception of the world. For example, if you decide you are going to go to a Korean restaurant for dinner, and it turns out that you cannot \u2014 maybe you have to go to a Greek restaurant \u2014 who cares? (Unless you hate Greek restaurants.) A Korean restaurant is pretty good <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">and <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">a Greek restaurant is pretty good. But you are still going to be annoyed that your plans changed. Why? Because when your plans change, the structure that you use to stabilize your perceptions of the world is disrupted. It momentarily throws you into a state of chaos.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">How much chaos? This is interesting. We do not know. If you wake up one morning and you have an ache in your side, what does it mean that you have an ache in your side? You do not know. Maybe it means you pulled a muscle. Maybe it means you have cancer and you only have months to live. The whole range of possibility is there. Some people will assume one thing, and some people will assume the other \u2014 and all of them will be right sometimes. So the question is, how do you calibrate something like that? The answer is, we tend to guess at it temperamentally. We have our set points for negative emotion (neuroticism trait), and some people would be a lot more nervous about a small-level anomaly than others. Maybe they will go to the hospital first and they will not die, or maybe they will be freaking out all the time and they will be a hypochondriac. There are pros and cons about being nervous like that. Perhaps the other person is emotionally stable and they ask nothing, but by the time they get to the hospital, it is too late. That is one way that you guess. It is determined in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-73976-ballots-released-by-maricopa-county-56-1-for-donald-trump\/\" title=\"BREAKING: 73,976 Ballots Released By Maricopa County \u2014 56.1% FOR DONALD TRUMP\">large part<\/a> genetically \u2014 not completely, but in large part.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Another part is your position in the hierarchy. How safe are you in life? Who knows? But one of the ways you guess is by asking if you are good at things. If you are good at things, a problem comes up and you can probably solve it. So how do you know if you are good at things? One answer might be: Other people think you are good at things because you are really kind of comparing yourself to other people when you are thinking about whether or not you are good at things. So if it turns out that you are in a hierarchy \u2014 and you are fairly high in the hierarchy, indicating a certain degree of competence \u2014 then your nervous system, under the control of the serotonin system, dampens down your negative emotion. It says, \u201cAll things considered, you are probably pretty safe.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">However, that also means you do not like having your position in the dominance hierarchy challenged at all. Because if you get tossed down the hierarchy \u2014 for example, if you get fired \u2014 it wreaks havoc on your serotonin function. It makes you defeated like the defeated lobsters I wrote about in \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/store.dailywire.com\/collections\/books\/products\/12-rules-for-life-an-antidote-to-chaos?_pos=1&#038;_fid=6a4910042&#038;_ss=c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">12 Rules for Life<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u201d Then, you are way more susceptible to negative emotion. And who wants that? That is why you do not even like to lose arguments. You lose a little argument, you slide down the dominance hierarchy a bit, and emotions are a bit destabilized. So instead, you think, \u201cI\u2019m right.\u201d Why? Because you want to keep your neurochemistry in check \u2014 and no wonder.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sometimes, however, it is better to learn than to insist on being right because learning works better for the future. But you get the point.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To continue, listen or watch more content with Dr. Jordan Peterson on <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/watch\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">DailyWire+<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jordanbpeterson.com\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dr. Jordan B. Peterson<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  is a clinical psychologist and professor emeritus at the University of Toronto. From 1993 to 1998 he served as assistant and then associate professor of psychology at Harvard. He is the international bestselling author of \u201cMaps of Meaning,\u201d \u201c12 Rules for Life,\u201d and \u201cBeyond Order.\u201d You can now<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/podcasts\/the-jordan-b-peterson-podcast\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  listen to<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  or<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/watch\/jordan-peterson\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  watch<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  his popular lectures on DailyWire+.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Below is a snippet from Dr. Jordan Peterson&#8217;s 2020 lecture, exploring our perception of the world, reasons for emotional destabilization, reactions to plan changes, and nervous system responses. 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