Post by Pincho Paxton on Mar 22, 2017 11:24:30 GMT
The more information you have on a particular subject the more likely you are to use logical thinking as opposed to emotional thinking. Logical thinking is obviously the better of the two, but there are reasons for it to be better that have probably been missed by quite a few studies.
Lets start with two people, one a logical thinker, and the other an emotional thinker. Why have they ended up this way?
1/ The emotional thinker.
Their emotions can be triggered as soon as it is time to learn something new, which has the knock on effect of them not learning that particular subject, which contains them in a paradox of not becoming a logical thinker. They are afraid to learn in case they fail, that's catch 22.
Their decisions are more fragile, because emotions fluctuate, and logic doesn't. So if they make an emotional decision, that decision may change next week unless they actually attempt to remember their previous decision. Remembering all of your emotional decisions would be very cumbersome, so their decisions are fragile to their memories.
Their neural network is not very efficient, because a neural network depends on repeating patterns and holding on to the patterns that work best like a game of chess. If you are making emotional choices that change each week then your neural network is not building up a good supply of useful patterns to use in every day life. The skills of this person may actually depend on superstition, their favourite golf club, a lucky charm, because the logic is replaced by emotion.
2/ The logical thinker
Really you can reverse most of what I said about the emotional thinker. Logic does not require a long term memory to repeat a decision that you made 1 month ago, you will simply follow the same rules as before. Unfortunately a lot of bosses in companies are emotional thinkers, so you can be faced with problems that are never solved, and confuse the workers with changing procedures. In sport for example, a logical thinker will repeat the same shot at pool each time improving that shot based on that shot being the most logical shot to take. Their neural network therefore is very efficient, and improving all of the time, and their memory of that shot is not fully required, but a memory of why it previously failed is given more storage space. It is harder to distract a logical thinker in sport, because they are following rules, and not emotions. Autistic students have that advantage over emotional students.
A logical thinker with no knowledge on a certain subject forced to make a decision on that subject will use emotional thinking, but may notice the difference, and not really like it, so decide to learn that subject.
I think I have covered some new areas in this study.
Pincho Paxton
Lets start with two people, one a logical thinker, and the other an emotional thinker. Why have they ended up this way?
1/ The emotional thinker.
Their emotions can be triggered as soon as it is time to learn something new, which has the knock on effect of them not learning that particular subject, which contains them in a paradox of not becoming a logical thinker. They are afraid to learn in case they fail, that's catch 22.
Their decisions are more fragile, because emotions fluctuate, and logic doesn't. So if they make an emotional decision, that decision may change next week unless they actually attempt to remember their previous decision. Remembering all of your emotional decisions would be very cumbersome, so their decisions are fragile to their memories.
Their neural network is not very efficient, because a neural network depends on repeating patterns and holding on to the patterns that work best like a game of chess. If you are making emotional choices that change each week then your neural network is not building up a good supply of useful patterns to use in every day life. The skills of this person may actually depend on superstition, their favourite golf club, a lucky charm, because the logic is replaced by emotion.
2/ The logical thinker
Really you can reverse most of what I said about the emotional thinker. Logic does not require a long term memory to repeat a decision that you made 1 month ago, you will simply follow the same rules as before. Unfortunately a lot of bosses in companies are emotional thinkers, so you can be faced with problems that are never solved, and confuse the workers with changing procedures. In sport for example, a logical thinker will repeat the same shot at pool each time improving that shot based on that shot being the most logical shot to take. Their neural network therefore is very efficient, and improving all of the time, and their memory of that shot is not fully required, but a memory of why it previously failed is given more storage space. It is harder to distract a logical thinker in sport, because they are following rules, and not emotions. Autistic students have that advantage over emotional students.
A logical thinker with no knowledge on a certain subject forced to make a decision on that subject will use emotional thinking, but may notice the difference, and not really like it, so decide to learn that subject.
I think I have covered some new areas in this study.
Pincho Paxton