Impulsiveness is the ability to make quick and spontaneous decisions without considering negative consequences. This character trait is the result of self-confident categoricalness and impatience. An impulsive person is guided more often by feelings and emotions than by reason. This set of qualities gives rise to unconscious faux pas and rudeness, harshness and irascibility.
Such behavior complicates the relationship of the individual with the people around him - relatives, friends, work colleagues. An impulsive person can burn too much of his own psychophysical energy due to an excessive emotional outburst, after which he experiences weakness and fatigue. Energetic, explosive people have such a character trait. They say about them that they first do and then think. An impulsive person is usually a bad conversationalist. Having asked, he does not listen to the answer. His thoughts jump from one object to another. He can be overly talkative, while he cares little if the interlocutor is listening or not.
A classic example of such an impulsive naturethe hero of Gogol's poem Dead Souls, the landowner Nozdryov, can serve. This literary character never thought about his actions. And if some thought flashed in his brain, he immediately began to act, not at all in accordance with human logic. He often became the initiator of fights and conflicts, he could lose to the nines, he never drew the right conclusions from his actions.
More often children and teenagers have unmotivated impulsiveness. Most of them with age acquire the ability to analyze their actions, to the logic of actions. But some retain a tendency to such behavior for life. An impulsive person is often eccentric, that is, prone to strange, unusual behavior.
The impulsivity of actions can be triggered by stress or some unusual situation. It is under the influence of such events that an impulsive reaction can flare up even in people who are quite adequate and reasonable in a calm and familiar environment. It is also not uncommon for situations when nervous tension accumulates for a long time, fueled by jealousy, anger, longing, envy and other circumstances, so that one day it bursts out with an outbreak of impulsive actions. Under the influence of the latter, crimes are committed, while the perpetrator himself is not always able to explain why he committed this act.
But if this kind of reaction is of a random one-time nature, then impulsivebehavior is the norm for such an individual. This behavior is more often the result of emotional and mental instability, the lack of adequate reactions, which has managed to turn into a familiar form. Impulsiveness and inadequacy of actions can be affected by the state of intoxication. Often, impulsive actions are committed because of the desire of the individual to assert himself, ensuring his superiority over others, or simply because of the desire to throw out the accumulated negative emotions.
