Basic intuition: The very fact of controlling, planning etc. has multiple effects.
Thus, what seems like an innocent action "try to relax" or "plan X" is changing our thought processes immediately, and having multiple other repercussions. Thereby, making the whole idea much more complicated than it naively feels.
Intellectual speak: Say I lie down and rest. A thought comes up and I am telling myself "forget it, lets rest". Sound simple? but every attention process does have an arousal element (e.g. Kahneman 1973 "Attantion and effort" book). Thus, attending and mulling over whether to "forget about it" is less carefree and innocent. It might cause arousal and wake you up! even when the goal of this tiny decision is to relax.
Generality: Once we accept that the management processes are themselves complicated, costly and carry side effects, every planning of control, change etc., are no longer obvious actions, or simple to do or understand. These complications might explain a hell lot of dysfunctions we see all the time in totally functional people
Related: Ego depletion. Friction (economics).
Thus, what seems like an innocent action "try to relax" or "plan X" is changing our thought processes immediately, and having multiple other repercussions. Thereby, making the whole idea much more complicated than it naively feels.
Intellectual speak: Say I lie down and rest. A thought comes up and I am telling myself "forget it, lets rest". Sound simple? but every attention process does have an arousal element (e.g. Kahneman 1973 "Attantion and effort" book). Thus, attending and mulling over whether to "forget about it" is less carefree and innocent. It might cause arousal and wake you up! even when the goal of this tiny decision is to relax.
Generality: Once we accept that the management processes are themselves complicated, costly and carry side effects, every planning of control, change etc., are no longer obvious actions, or simple to do or understand. These complications might explain a hell lot of dysfunctions we see all the time in totally functional people
Related: Ego depletion. Friction (economics).
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