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Dealing With The Irrational by philoedu(m): 8:50am On Jan 11, 2018
In the first place, what does it mean to be irrational or rational. The word rational in the first place is derived from the Latin word ration and from there it entered into the old French lexicon as reisum or reson. It is said to enter Middle English lexicon as resoum or reisum. And the English word rational is directly tied to the very concept of reason, just as the reasoning power, cognitive power, logical thinking and sanity.

The same is true that a rational being is an individual capable of logical thought with the ability to reason. Such ability to reason toward sound conclusions based on facts and evidence, drawing what may be called inferences from not only situations and circumstances, but also inferences that make a sound well-reasoned judgment based on factual information. Often, humans at their best are rational beings who unfortunately could lose a moment to give in to moment of irrationality during action, decision, judgment and inferences based on emotion, pressure physicality and anything other than sound reason.

whether, we like it or not we get to interact with a lot of unique personality of various backgrounds. In the mix of these individual are characterized ambitions, greed and name it while others are motivated by a higher calling just to make a difference in characters and attitude in general. The same is true, that not until we are able to identify what actually drive individual on a personal level at any point in time, it will be difficult, if not impossible to really work effective with them to achieve individual goal and objective. It is also true, that some time, we often come to find ourselves in a situation where this expectation don’t always hold true. This is because, certain individual behavior do not often seems to be motivated by any known or observable and identifiable emotion, and if you like, logical thought, of which we are left in what may seems oblivion.
Therefore, sometimes certain individual are simply just outside the box of what come to be known as rational in terms, hence, can be squarely been regarded as irrational. But how do you learn to deal with such irrational individual, becomes the question. It must be observed that it is particularly an important skill to learn as any challenging behavior has the tendency to manifest itself at any given instant along the way. And this may happen to be an obstacle to any sound objective. It is also true that managing any such behavior is never an easy task, although, it can be done, hence psychology come into play here to do some vital role to understanding what is at stake.

However, we are often being told, when haven’t to deal with difficult individuals of irrational behavior, some essential element of simple lesson tends to stands out. In the first place and very important, is to recognize that everyone, including your very self, irrespective of the prevailing climate at any moment in time, can as well act irrational and even crazy at any given time, depending on the emotional psychology. It must be emphasized, that the reality is that at one point or the other, there are many factors that may come to influence our behavior, for instance in any tense situation we least expected.
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