So, do you always do what is obviously right? I certainly don't, and I think most people are like me. Being reminded to not do things that are obviously wrong, even when I know they're wrong, actually does help keep me from doing them.
I have a problem with "Hungry makes me stupid". If my blood sugar gets low, my judgment slips. And the first thing that slips is the judgment that I need to stop and eat before I do Just This One More Thing. A large number of people in my life are under standing orders to make me stop whatever I'm doing and eat something if they see my judgment impaired. Simple, stupid, obvious. And missing it is pretty much hardwired in me.
> So, do you always do what is obviously right? I certainly don't, and I think most people are like me. Being reminded to not do things that are obviously wrong, even when I know they're wrong, actually does help keep me from doing them.
This would depend on the obviousness at stake. I don't know what your daily job is, but I imagine that there are things so basic that don't really need "remembering". Imagine a programmer being told how a "if" works; that's the obviousness level at stake in this article.
I should obviously not get so caught up in reading that I miss my train stop, but I often do (or I get on the wrong train).
Consider, for a programmer, the obviousness of not using hardcoded values. But we do all the time, as a placeholder while we finish a bigger picture thing. We fully intend to fix it later, but we don't, until it bites us in the ass. That's just one example. Most programmers I know do things they know they shouldn't do, all the time, because it gets them through that particular moment.
I have a problem with "Hungry makes me stupid". If my blood sugar gets low, my judgment slips. And the first thing that slips is the judgment that I need to stop and eat before I do Just This One More Thing. A large number of people in my life are under standing orders to make me stop whatever I'm doing and eat something if they see my judgment impaired. Simple, stupid, obvious. And missing it is pretty much hardwired in me.