What are the disadvantages of being too rational?

[Pingju]

Or is there such a thing as being too rational? ? ? Can too much of this good thing called rationality actually be bad? Thanks for sharing.

[DoctorSex]

being too rational doesn't mean you lack emotion. As humans we all have the capacity to experience the same emotions, and we all do, we just learn how to disguise the ones we'd rather not let others see.

The disadvantages to being too rational is that you lack flexibility and you need information that has and can be trialed and tested in order to change your belief systems.

The problem with this is, there's more in existence that hasn't been trialed, tested and studied, than there is things that have. So being too rational limits you.

[caesar-rexensis]

It's not human.

Emotion is as valid as logic. There's no reason it shouldn't be.

It's normal to act on whim, feeling and emotion without thinking, or using a rational process.

Some people reckon that decisions made on logic are "better" than those made via emotion. I say bollocks to that. Logic is just a process, little more than that.

[Pingju]

It is human to make mistakes too :-)

[kangaru2]

i find that too rational can lack emotion and not able to feel for people..
can come across as bit hostile/cold

[Pingju]

Jiu shi loh.

[kangaru2]

what happened?

[Pingju]

Haha, mei2 shi4. Wo3 xiang3 ting1 ting1 da4 jia1 de yi4 jian4 ;-)

[kangaru2]

ooooo, yuan lai ru ci

[Pingju]

Wo3 shi4 jue2 de ru2 guo3 yi4 bai3 ba1 xian1 li3 zhi4(rational), na4 jiu4 bu2 shi4 ren2 le.Ni3 tong2 yi4 ma?

[kangaru2]

wo tong yi

[Pingju]

Na4 ni3 yao4 bu2 yao4 zuo4 yi4 bai3 ba1 xian1 li3 zhi4 de ren2?

[kangaru2]

no i wouldn't want to and my personality also hard to be 100% rational hahah

[Dragonblood21]

Yes and no.

No because in the literal sense being too rational that it is causing your decisions to greatly inflict with emotion (in a bad way), can be argued as not being rational...

[jacquesvol]

I'm very rational, overthinking everything all the time

I miss spontaneity, the feeling of letting all things go without caring (I hate having been drunk), carelessness thus.