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Cognitive dissonance - Laterne Rouge - both are true

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The borders railway south from Edinburgh has reopened

It was both successful and unsuccessful

Many more passengers than expected wanted to use it

But it uses old DMUs that overheat on the hills and have to cool down before proceeding

Both are true

Any more examples of cognitive dissonance?

Diolch/thanks
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I am not very susceptible to cognitive dissonance. as a result I admit my failures, accept much of what I have bought is utter crap and I am consequently a very miserable person in a state of depression caused by accepting the reality of life.
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Cyril Haearn wrote:The borders railway south from Edinburgh has reopened

It was both successful and unsuccessful

Many more passengers than expected wanted to use it

But it uses old DMUs that overheat on the hills and have to cool down before proceeding

Both are true

Any more examples of cognitive dissonance?

Diolch/thanks


Sounds more like the result of incompetence to me - using clapped out and poorly maintained machinery that isn't up to the job.
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pete75 wrote:Sounds more like the result of incompetence to me - using clapped out and poorly maintained machinery that isn't up to the job.


I agree.
Cognitive dissonance:-
The state of having inconsistent thoughts, beliefs, or attitudes, especially as relating to behavioural decisions and attitude change.

The rail companies thoughts seem consistently crap AFAICS :?
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pete75 wrote:
Cyril Haearn wrote:The borders railway south from Edinburgh has reopened

It was both successful and unsuccessful

Many more passengers than expected wanted to use it

But it uses old DMUs that overheat on the hills and have to cool down before proceeding

Both are true

Any more examples of cognitive dissonance?

Diolch/thanks


Sounds more like the result of incompetence to me - using clapped out and poorly maintained machinery that isn't up to the job.


Or independent/disconnected/unjoined-up thinking
I bet 60143 Tornado could get over those hills, it is nearly new :wink:
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meic wrote:I am not very susceptible to cognitive dissonance. as a result I admit my failures, accept much of what I have bought is utter crap and I am consequently a very miserable person in a state of depression caused by accepting the reality of life.

But it could be worse! You are spared the burden of having to rationalise inconsistent positions within your own head. That's a sure way to physical and mental illness.

A depressed person might be seeing the world more clearly than the optimist. Would it help to "drink the Kool-Aid", and join the merry band of the deluded?

We are all susceptible to some degree, but I think cognitive dissonance can be minimised via a few strategies. Accept complexity, ambiguity and uncertainty; be aware of self-serving elements within your thinking; stick to principles rather than short term advantage; have few principles but have sound ones.
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Cyril Haearn wrote:I bet 60143 Tornado could get over those hills, it is nearly new :wink:
Yes, but it won't last long.

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bovlomov wrote:
meic wrote:I am not very susceptible to cognitive dissonance. as a result I admit my failures, accept much of what I have bought is utter crap and I am consequently a very miserable person in a state of depression caused by accepting the reality of life.


A depressed person might be seeing the world more clearly than the optimist. Would it help to "drink the Kool-Aid", and join the merry band of the deluded?

Now I know what I need to do! :lol:
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Hi,
A personal battle of a conscientious person.
Happens when you work with over egotistical so called team members, empire building, brownie points scoring etc.
An organisation that wishes to excel should not act like this.
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Vorpal wrote:
bovlomov wrote:
meic wrote:I am not very susceptible to cognitive dissonance. as a result I admit my failures, accept much of what I have bought is utter crap and I am consequently a very miserable person in a state of depression caused by accepting the reality of life.


A depressed person might be seeing the world more clearly than the optimist. Would it help to "drink the Kool-Aid", and join the merry band of the deluded?

Now I know what I need to do! :lol:

Are you a depressed person who would prefer to be cheerfully deluded, or a deluded person wishing to be a depressed realist?
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bovlomov wrote:
Vorpal wrote:
bovlomov wrote:
A depressed person might be seeing the world more clearly than the optimist. Would it help to "drink the Kool-Aid", and join the merry band of the deluded?

Now I know what I need to do! :lol:

Are you a depressed person who would prefer to be cheerfully deluded, or a deluded person wishing to be a depressed realist?

How would you know the difference?
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Mick F wrote:
Cyril Haearn wrote:I bet 60143 Tornado could get over those hills, it is nearly new :wink:
Yes, but it won't last long.

Welded cheap and nasty boiler.


That creates lots more work +99, the crazies want to build a P8 (2-8-2) from scratch now :wink:

The Corris and the L&B have new engines and the other L&B, Listowel & Ballybunion has been resurrected, maybe the Lartigue system is the future?
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bovlomov wrote:Are you a depressed person who would prefer to be cheerfully deluded, or a deluded person wishing to be a depressed realist?

I am neither, but when I read the (depressing) news, I sometimes think that it would be nicer to be deluded!
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Cyril Haearn wrote:
pete75 wrote:
Cyril Haearn wrote:The borders railway south from Edinburgh has reopened

It was both successful and unsuccessful

Many more passengers than expected wanted to use it

But it uses old DMUs that overheat on the hills and have to cool down before proceeding

Both are true

Any more examples of cognitive dissonance?

Diolch/thanks


Sounds more like the result of incompetence to me - using clapped out and poorly maintained machinery that isn't up to the job.


Or independent/disconnected/unjoined-up thinking
I bet 60143 Tornado could get over those hills, it is nearly new :wink:


Especially pulling that weight of carriages......
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The cops are tops here again
Heddlu Cymru will be using an hgv (not speed-limited :? ) to catch drivers who eat, phone, cut their toenails while moving
One earnestly hopes the driver will concentrate on driving and her mate will do the observing

Not sure why it is necessary mind, a police spokesperson assorted that the vast majority of drivers are responsible!

One could not make it up
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