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My husband is CONSTANTLY analyzing. He basically never turns it off. Even his “goofing off” is analytical. He still has strong emotions though! But there’s a mode I’m in *most of the time* that he’s never in. Kind of hard to explain. Like...aesthetically curating your experience?
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There are elements of hippie aesthetics that get close but w/o the high energy; there are transhumanist/sci-fi aesthetics that hit “high-energy omniwin” but usually lack the discipline & attention to history to be beautiful & do their biophilia clumsily
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Hmm. There’s something there. I have a few vibe preferences at various scales (peace over conflict in the world, nice weather where I live, good coffee, laid back personal life energy) but feeling the vibe being off is an input that then turns into a thinking task.
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At personal scale, it becomes problem solving (go from bad coffee to good coffee). At global scale it’s mostly reframing/refactoring till I’m in tune with prevailing vibe. Rarely any attempt to participate in changing the large-scale vibe, since I find that mostly delusional.
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I think going from vibe preference to problem-solving is the normal/healthy thing for everyone, the variance here is how much time they spend going “what’s this vibe?” (perception task) vs “how do I engineer my life to achieve this vibe?” (planning task).
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I spend a lot of my time in perception mode but I wouldn’t say I have strong aesthetic preferences. The opposite in fact. Though I exaggerate a bit to troll you aesthetes, I do deliberately and consciously work on discarding aesthetic filters as I become aware of them.
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