Meditation on the Uninitiative

In general, while macaques look stupid because they waste resources, dull macaques can look very smart because they don't waste resources. Well, absolute passivity, inertia, so a person will only get into something when it's of the highest quality. There's a certain aristocracy in that. But the main difference between an aristocrat and a commoner is rights and money. If you don't show initiative when you have nothing special, everything will remain the same. If you try to understand the essence of lack of initiative, a simple thing emerges: it's always a deficit in the cognitive and executive functions of the nervous system. That is, a person literally cannot and does not want to understand how a certain space is structured and begin to act within it. The mechanics of the process are as follows: 1. Study the landscape and its resources. If there's something promising, continue. 2. Study the players collecting resources. 3. Copy elements of someone else's game while adding your own. 4. Run a cycle of updates until you've managed to absorb the valuable resources and become satisfied. A person without initiative simply chooses "to completely copy the average player" at step 3, and "to achieve a minimum result and stop updating and experimenting" at step 4. Until the strategy completely collapses, they'll never seriously restart steps 1 and 2. But since step 4 is extremely conservative, they can sit in their swamp almost indefinitely.