It's true that you lack a certain social grace, and this has been noted in the past, bu yourself and others. You calim not to care, and that's fine. I believe you most of the time.
Perhaps what's missing is a careful definition of what it means to "not care", when I use that phrase. It comes down to a distillation of the above: I lack interest in expending the effort to bridge to a mind that I believe isn't going to be interested in my ideas (or in supplying ideas that I would find interesting). I can expand if desired.
however, I think that your inability to understand people is really going to hurt you in the long run, in any number of ways. You really seem unable to see past the dichotomy of rational/emotional, which is a shame, because this dichotomy if an over-simplistic model and not representative of how most people really think, act, and, generally, live.
I understand your objection, though as mentioned above, I don't see this as a dichotomy, but as a continuum, where the extreme positions are mutually exclusive. I place myself very near the extreme, but admit that the huge majority are somewhere in between (though "clustered", IMO). I also understand that this isn't an adequate model of people's behaviour, though it does serve as a sort of "general classifier" for guiding my discussions with people I meet. Life is too short to obey all the social pleasantries, if doing so limits the amount of intellectual activity that can be shared.
True objectivity may be a noble goal for a scientist, but it is not one that is possible to obtain, and I think that sometimes you think yourself closer to it than you really are.
Hmm. I appreciate the observation, a "reality check" is a good thing now and then. ;-) I don't believe myself to be as nearly objective as you suggest, though. I know, probably far better than you do, just how far I am from being "truly objective". There's a reason I don't accept the self-label of scientist. Not yet, anyway. I aspire to be a scientist, though there's a long, long ways to go before that happens.
Anyway, that was sort of a digression. I think my thoughts on compliment giving/receiving is being better illustrated in the ongoing dialogue with your wife, atm, so I am not going to repeat it here.
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Perhaps what's missing is a careful definition of what it means to "not care", when I use that phrase. It comes down to a distillation of the above: I lack interest in expending the effort to bridge to a mind that I believe isn't going to be interested in my ideas (or in supplying ideas that I would find interesting). I can expand if desired.
however, I think that your inability to understand people is really going to hurt you in the long run, in any number of ways. You really seem unable to see past the dichotomy of rational/emotional, which is a shame, because this dichotomy if an over-simplistic model and not representative of how most people really think, act, and, generally, live.
I understand your objection, though as mentioned above, I don't see this as a dichotomy, but as a continuum, where the extreme positions are mutually exclusive. I place myself very near the extreme, but admit that the huge majority are somewhere in between (though "clustered", IMO). I also understand that this isn't an adequate model of people's behaviour, though it does serve as a sort of "general classifier" for guiding my discussions with people I meet. Life is too short to obey all the social pleasantries, if doing so limits the amount of intellectual activity that can be shared.
True objectivity may be a noble goal for a scientist, but it is not one that is possible to obtain, and I think that sometimes you think yourself closer to it than you really are.
Hmm. I appreciate the observation, a "reality check" is a good thing now and then. ;-) I don't believe myself to be as nearly objective as you suggest, though. I know, probably far better than you do, just how far I am from being "truly objective". There's a reason I don't accept the self-label of scientist. Not yet, anyway. I aspire to be a scientist, though there's a long, long ways to go before that happens.
Anyway, that was sort of a digression. I think my thoughts on compliment giving/receiving is being better illustrated in the ongoing dialogue with your wife, atm, so I am not going to repeat it here.
Groovy.
BTW: "catalystic" (catalytic), "bu" (by), "calim" (claim), "however" (capitalization)