MichaelA🔸 comments on The community’s conception of value drifting is sometimes too narrow

[MichaelA🔸]

I think another term would better fit your description. Maybe “executive failure”.

It seems to me that there’s a bunch of terms/​concepts which all seem like they fit/​are relevant to some extent here, including (off the top of my head):

• value drift

• changing priorities

• executive failure (I’ve never heard this, and don’t think there’s a need to introduce the term if it doesn’t exist yet, but I can see why it’d work)

• failure of willpower

• failure to follow through

• akrasia

• procrastination

• hyperbolic discounting

  • How relevant this is depends on the specifics

Which term is most appropriate in a given case will probably depend on the specifics and on the author/​speaker’s aims. And it would probably be good for people to more often think a little more carefully about which term they use, and to more often briefly explain what they mean by the term.