Are more emotional people seen as superior to less emotional people?
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Re: Are more emotional people seen as superior to less emotional people?I would judge the cold, calculating types less, yes. This is just because you can warm to the openly emotional types. I suppose one is important if you were say, a doctor. The other maybe if you wanted to become an enterpreneur?
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Re: Are more emotional people seen as superior to less emotional people?People who are more calculating and manipulative are better than people who operate by listening to their feelings (and are less rational)? Is this what you are alluding to?
I sometimes lurk on a forum for people with Anti-Social Personality Disorder (morbid fascination)- i.e. they are sociopaths and psychopaths, and this is the view most of them hold.
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Re: Are more emotional people seen as superior to less emotional people?What? You seem to be contradicting yourself unless I have misunderstood.(Original post by That Bearded Man)
I would judge the cold, calculating types less, yes. This is just because you can warm to the openly emotional types. I suppose one is important if you were say, a doctor. The other maybe if you wanted to become an enterpreneur?
You say you judge the 'cold' (ie less emotional?) type less, therefore you favour them, correct? But yet then you say you can warm to the 'openly emotional' type, which also suggests you favour them?
Also are you suggesting that emotional people are likely to be better entrepreneurs as opposed to less emotional people? -
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Re: Are more emotional people seen as superior to less emotional people?Reread my comment and saw what you mean, my mistake. Instead of "judge less" I meant "I think of them less"(Original post by Kenocide)
What? You seem to be contradicting yourself unless I have misunderstood.
You say you judge the 'cold' (ie less emotional?) type less, therefore you favour them, correct? But yet then you say you can warm to the 'openly emotional' type, which also suggests you favour them?
Also are you suggesting that emotional people are likely to be better entrepreneurs as opposed to less emotional people?
And as for entrepreneurs, yes I do, some jobs (I suppose even the Greg House doctors) I think will be better performed by the less emotionally involved types. Entrepreneurs to crush their rival businesses, defence barristers, prison officers, etc. -
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Re: Are more emotional people seen as superior to less emotional people?Superior in what respect? There is a balance to be achieved. For instance if you are working as a member of a team you need enough emotional scope to be able to sympathise and work with others, but enough self control to be able to work with a strong degree of objectivity and be rational about things etc. People who get more emotional are good at some things and people who get less are good at others, it is hard to say that one is in any sense better than the other.
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Re: Are more emotional people seen as superior to less emotional people?Emotions are a sign of weakness and can be exploited.
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Re: Are more emotional people seen as superior to less emotional people?If we take "superior" to mean better able to acheive common Western desires and basically work the system, manipulate people, accumulate money/resources, etc., then there is a middle-of-the-road emotionalness (?) that is optimal. People who are too emotional get buffetted around like a ship in a storm and are too affected by things, too easily wounded. People with basically "no emotions" or very low energy can't understand or relate to people and always come across as being strange, odd sorts who command no respect at all.
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Re: Are more emotional people seen as superior to less emotional people?I think it depends on what culture you live in. In England, I get the impression that less emotional people are seen as superior because they have a stiff upper lip which is seen as positive here.
