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> I often feel like carrying the weight of technical decision making on a moment-to-moment basis is what makes engineers bad at social skills. That's correct.
by pygy_ 8y ago
> I often feel like carrying the weight of technical decision making on a moment-to-moment basis is what makes engineers bad at social skills.
That's correct. The logical and emotional parts of your brain literally inhibit one another.
Edit: that being said, it means that it's hard to do both things at the same time, but you can alternate between both modes.
- wolfgke 8y ago> That's correct. The logical and emotional parts of your brain literally inhibit one another. I don't know whether this is true or not. But I am sure that when I do mathematics, I have very strong emotions. These are of a very different kind than the emotions that you find described, say, in a novel. I came to the conclusion that neither the English nor the German language have words for these emotions.
- pygy_ 8y agoThat's very interesting. What I described is the general case, you may have an unusually wired brain, triggering logic/emotions synesthesia. The emotions you describe are reminiscent of the "Martian colors" described by a colorblind synesthete who could see words in colors, including colors his eyes could not trigger in his brain. Richard Feynman was notoriously synesthete. He could see math in color (builtin syntax highlighting :-).
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