Overly-analytical - too jaded to make initial connections?

[Illusive_Man]

People are often too emotional, too hot-headed, always acting out of impulse instead of calculations...

Calmness is often promoted, cold-headed in a hot situation. It's seen as a virtue...

However the problem with being analytical is; it is only good to a certain point, after you past the point of no return, you become jaded and cynical.

Then you try to break down everything; the motives, the methods, the end, the exchange...You think too much and stop feeling. Everytime things went as you predicted, it reinforces your mode of behavior...It rewards you and you seek that high again...that confirmation.

You forget the very reason why you analyze things in the first place; to make better decisions in life, to make connections with the right people and stay away from the wrong ones....And when that happens you lose your humanity; you become a robot and when you lose your humanity...what else is there?

[Prof_Don]

Very true. I'm a brainy guy and I had to learn to shut my analytical brain down from time to time, and allow myself to go off of emotion (especially when socializing with people ).

Not everything in life is a set formula of execution in which to plug in values for variables!

[WhateverMayBeWillBe]

I went the same route but now I'm stuck in a emotional logical limbo...

[Prof_Don]

When socializing with people train yourself to turn off the analysis part of your brain.

It isn't that most people are dumb or ditzy... it is that most of these people turn off their analytical brain and go off of emotion, thus being more lighthearted

[Prof_Don]

@WhateverMayBeWillBe (ready above)

[RationalLioness]

I personally don't think it's good to be "over" anything... well... compassionate and a few other things I'm on the fence about.

But I agree.

[GirlsTonguesHOT]

Too much compassion can lead to "empathy/sympathy overcharge" which can in turn lead to depression. Sometimes, you just have to accept that you can't help everyone, as depressing as it is.

[Bluemax]

Hmm... Your take is...
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[MysteriousFlower]

As much as I would like to be wailing like a 9 year old, I generally let analytical side be my guide. I think a balance would be healthy for the mind but most of the population are either too emotional or cold.

[GirlsTonguesHOT]

I concur.

Use your emotions to GUIDE your thinking rather than cloud it.

[WhateverMayBeWillBe]

I wish this "my take" was longer so you could have explored this idea a little bit further, I feel like it ended abruptly.

[Illusive_Man]

It is for you to answer , the question of "what else is there" .

[WhateverMayBeWillBe]

Yeah I understand. I tried being dumb-down for the sake of socialization, but than I got annoyed with how I was behaving and am now trying to find a new direction (because I'm not going to bother going back to the way I was, it just seems unproductive).

I was just out with a group of people and I was fairly withdrawn... the topics they were talking about I had very little interested or input for what they were but my overall disdain was overshadowed by my inability & lack of energy to relate with the people I was hanging out with. The pessimistic & condescending side of me has diminished a lot because no one will tolerate it so it's like my own personal torture if I continue thinking like that.

[Illusive_Man]

Why are you even with people you can't relate to then?

[WhateverMayBeWillBe]

You have to start somewhere, they're not that bad. They're nice & welcoming besides the people that I do know who I have very complex conversations with never want to do anything so I need to start over.

[HuckyHucky]

It's important to just be balanced. A person shouldn't be ruled by neither their emotions nor logic. Both can be appropriate and inappropriate considering the situation.

[Bandit74]

I liked this take. It was short and to the point but at the same time deep and well written unlike some of the other shorter myTakes.

good job 👏

[blondfrog]

hahah lol that reminds of the song Jaded by Aerosmith lol.

[abundantlyrich]

Thanks. You are a real Zen for the rest of gagers.

[Illusive_Man]

Not sure if it's a thing to be proud of lol

[abundantlyrich]

If you can make dumb people think. I salute you.

[Illusive_Man]

It's not that hard lol, just need to kick away the stone stopping the boulder from rolling down the hill.

[abundantlyrich]

But people are written software by their environment

[Illusive_Man]

and like any software , any law , there's gonna be loopholes ain't it?

[abundantlyrich]

Yes when shit hits their fan, that's when they know to change.

[Illusive_Man]

A bit like this I suppose.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ylp5iKDFe10

[abundantlyrich]

Yes they self destruct.

[kxera]

Too much of anything is bad.

[OrdinaryGentleman]

My thought exactly excellent post

[Illusive_Man]

seems to be a common problem among men lol

[6161616162222]

*Crickets chirping* *Clap , clap* , nice take

[JackKerouac77]

Well said, brother.