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The Opposite of Emotional Isn't Logical
People often dichotomize logic and emotions, the thinking and the feeling, as if being analytical is incompatible with being emotionally sensitive. You're left-brained or right-brained, or for the Myers-Briggs personality types, you're either a (T)hinker or a (F)eeler. It bothers me when personality traits are dichotomized, as they often are, because I know I am full of seemingly contradicting traits. If "thinking" and "feeling" lie on opposite poles, I wouldn't lie in the middle, but I'd be split into two. The logical side doesn't cancel out the feeling side, making me a little bit logical and a little bit feeling. In other words, I wouldn't consider myself less analytical than the typical analytical person nor would I consider myself less sensitive than a typical sensitive person just because I have these "opposing" traits. If we're talking about Myers-Briggs types, the descriptions of INTP, INTJ, INFP, and INFJ all describe me quite well even though they contradict each other at times (though if I had to pick one, I would say INTP fits me best).
I believe people have the capacity to be both logical and emotionally sensitive. Whether one is able to be both empathetic and logical at the same time remains an open question (here's some
sensationalized pop-psychology that I'm skeptical of), but if not both, one can at least alternate between logical reasoning and empathetic reasoning (probably with individual differences in this ability to alternate). We wouldn't be human if we were purely logical or purely emotional.
Unlike compassion, analytical abilities are often linked with intelligence, yet it would be impossible to properly reason about the human condition or social problems without understanding people. I can see why emotionality is frequently associated with irrationality; it's easy to have tunnel vision when you're emotionally caught up in something. When it comes to critical thinking, the ability to step back from your own emotions and biases to take different perspectives is an important skill. However, don't confuse emotional statements with
illogical ones. I know that when I'm feeling emotional, I often say things that aren't what most people would call "logical". For example, I may say things like,
"I feel like jumping out the window" or
"I want to punch something" when I'm in distress, but these statements don't exactly hold any significant logical values (even though they would be automatically logically true by the subjective nature of the statements). They don't make claims of what I
should do; they are simply statements of how I
feel. There is not much up for debate.
On the other hand,
being unemotional, cold, or uncaring doesn't necessarily make you logical. I would even say that not having enough empathy and lacking the ability to take different perspectives can be a big disadvantage when it comes to critical thinking. How are you to argue about something you don't understand? Is your egotism a symptom of your superior intelligence or a product of your ignorance? Being unmoved by others' emotions does not mean you are uninfluenced by your own emotions, and being an asshole doesn't make you any smarter. If you pride yourself on having a stone heart but you still make judgements about people or human problems, you're probably not as logical or stone-like as you think; stones don't feel, nor do they make judgements about people (or anything, really). Or if you consider yourself akin to a computer, realize that computers don't make judgements about people either.
via
http://facingluck.com/2014/05/18/the-opposite-of-emotional-isnt-logical/
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k now im done lolbye