This is very insightful and matches my personal experience and the experiences of some friends:
Sociology is less inherently subjective and meta than psychology, having intersubjectively measurable properties such as events in human lifetimes and social network graph structures.
I have not done too much meditation myself, but some friends who’ve gone very deep into that rabbit hole reported that too much meta-cognition made them hyperaware to an unhealthy extent.
I have noticed myself oscillating between learning how to make my cognition more effective (introspection, debugging, etc.) and taking breaks by just reading history, anthropology, literature, appreciating art or something more crafty/active.
I very much appreciate the sense of purpose and solidarity I get out of learning more about the humanities.
This is very insightful and matches my personal experience and the experiences of some friends:
I have not done too much meditation myself, but some friends who’ve gone very deep into that rabbit hole reported that too much meta-cognition made them hyperaware to an unhealthy extent.
I have noticed myself oscillating between learning how to make my cognition more effective (introspection, debugging, etc.) and taking breaks by just reading history, anthropology, literature, appreciating art or something more crafty/active.
I very much appreciate the sense of purpose and solidarity I get out of learning more about the humanities.