acting on impulses will cause conflict. reflection helps us go a higher perspective beyond primary feelings. instead of urgency and compulsion for thirst, we can adopt a mindset to self transcend and be aware and curious of this thirst reflection gives us a gap - if its amplified, then we end up like hamlet - reflecting on reflection, incapable of acting, lose motivational machinery of acting in the world eventually you lose agency from too much reflection, and its subjective so its hard to always balance how can we be self correcting? to leverage wanting but also not be too reflective?