>All of them share a view that the principled or systematic person — the person who believes in one truth according to one set of principles — is weaker or less

>All of them share a view that the principled or systematic person — the person who believes in one truth according to one set of principles — is weaker or less spiritually advanced than the person who sees things through multiple points of view. If your own principles and views are coherent, tied down to observations and causal mechanisms, then you can imagine counterfactuals. If you can't imagine counterfactuals, and what would draw other people to believe those counterfactuals hold in real life, you don't fully understand your own point of view. >Is it possible to love something, or pursue something, without freaking out about it? Ever been married? You can't stay married if you're freaking out about your spouse, nor if you can't acknowledge flaws. You don't keep your cool about your spouse. You commit to loving them as the person they really are, rather than as your fantasy of them. >I’ve had occasions myself when I deliberately “took myself out of the picture” in order to hold space for others — and it worked pretty well, and was fun in its own way, and people responded well to it, but I had a strong intuition that this wasn’t what I wanted to spend the majority of my life doing. I have a self, and it’s not going to like being cooped up forever. Yeaaaah... I've definitely been in this situation. It's kinda been boiling at the back of my mind whenever I have to do work with a strictly political group rather than a technical one, or with technical ones where I want to work on some other problem. These kinds of things take long-term planning to fix. It's not just a matter of working "on your own": you need to get in the right environment where your self can come out.