And the cryptic: "People continually ruin their lives by persisting in actions against which their sensations rebel".
Some will persist in opposing action by saying, "We have heard this song before".
For if they persist in blocking United Nations action where action is justified, they will hasten the day of the organization's irrelevance.
Despite his change of heart, Nathan Glazer seems to persist in viewing affirmative action as a program intended exclusively for blacks ("Nathan Glazer Changes His Mind Again," June 28).
For example, Aston-Jones and Cohen [40] demonstrated that the locus coeruleus-norepinephrine (LC-NE) system is implicated in the control of the decision to persist in a given action or switch to another.
Often we judge things by their short-term results, since these are most salient, and if they look good, persist in our course of action.
"If HMRC persist in this course of action, they must take great care to impose the same standards and safeguards as they would themselves when recovering these highly sensitive and untypical debts".
So why then do well-intentioned schools, councils and green groups - and let's face it, Live Earth was an eight-hour tip-fest - persist in promoting such ineffectual actions?
When people perceive that they have a high degree of control, they exert effort, try hard, initiate action, and persist in the face of failures and setbacks; they evince interest, optimism, sustained attention, problem solving, and an action orientatio.
Even though the outcomes that people achieve may bear no resemblance to the ones that they intended, it is still important to know what they thought they were doing when they chose to pursue to course of action that they chose – not least because it is important to know why they persist in pursuing that course of action, despite the fact that it is not producing the intended consequences.
Illusions of control might indeed be positive if they prompt people to take confident action and persist in the face of discouragement.
