1. Emotional block: We see this with the Trump election. People should have reached coldly and thought, “Okay, what’s the plan to impede his presidency and make him lose next time.” Then they should have executed it. But human emotion is strange. They didn’t do that.
2. They went crazy, trying to deny it happened. They just made fools of themselves for the pleasure of the Trumpers, and did nothing practical to oppose Trump. These emotional blocks are very common when we have setbacks. It’s a big block to learning anything, from languages...
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3. ...to mathematics. It’s better to be cold. Acknowledge the emotion, don’t repress it (so you’re run by it subconsciously) or let it all out to make it stronger. My question is whether or not this coldness should be extended to friends, family and relationships.
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4. I used to draw a line. I’d be cold in business, but I’d let the emotions dominate with friends, family, and women. I increasingly wonder if this is a good idea. The excess emotion leads to clinging and sentimentality, which are painful.
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5. It might be better to be as cold in ther personal realm as the public realm. Kinder. Just look as people as objects. My ethical intuition is against this in the same way people oppose to thinking of sex as something that the state should resdistribute.
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5. But I have quite good grounds to believe other people act as coldly and don’t make these ethical distinctions. Further, it seems rational to believe that I shouldn’t. Yet, when I’ve acted coldly and without sentiment, I’ve ended up regretting it.
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6. Even though what I did was the cold and rational thing to do. So, I still don’t know: coldness in all or a division in coldness.
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