I'm thinking about the phrase "lack of imagination" at the moment. People who can vividly imagine the future are probably more motivated to take actions that affect that imagined future.
If your imagination about the future is very vivid and persistent, you might start believing in it, so you start working toward that future goal. It's a delusion or mirage until it's realised, but you rely on it to keep moving until it is no longer a lie.
Faith, as it's sometimes called. And I don't have faith in much of anything. I believe it when I see it. When I do have faith, it doesn't last for very long. Easily shattered. I don't trust anything.
@thor In the drama "Driftekaren" by Hans E Kinck, the main character is sort of torn between a poetic nature and the dodgy - sometimes outright evil - stuff he does to get ahead. After a dodgy deal he puts it this way ("drift" here means "herd" as in animals):
"Det gjelder styre store syners drift,
å nytte dem, å tvinge dem i kve og grind"
@hallvors It sounds to me like this character has a vision that keeps him going, and along with that, he comes up with shorter-term schemes to further that vision. There is The Purpose and then there are tasks. Keeping sight of the goal, as they say. This interests me, this ability or tendency that people have, to keep the same picture nailed up on the wall of the mind for a long time.
With ADHD, they speak of a lack of executive function. Of impulsiveness and poor decisionmaking. But no one talks about visions. In the moment when the bad decision is made, you have lost sight of the goal.
What is it that keeps people interested in the same thing for that long? I can look at a picture for a little while, but then I look at something else, because now I have seen the picture. People who have visions that they hold in their minds are a bit like people who stare at the same picture all the time. That's how they seem to me anyway.
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