That again sounds pretty close to how I would have described myself earlier (and would mostly still describe). You didn’t write about your emotional balance but if you’re again like me, it would involve few excited states and fewer conflicted or what’s called negative states and emotions e.g., anger. If so, that would confirm my assumption that getting to such a uniform and stable state requires a certain environment. An environment that has little need for the developing brain and mind to overfit. No forced adaptations to environmental risks like loss of caretakers or life. But also an environment rich in information and worth exploring.
I would like to tag in as a 3rd in this group and say your estimate at my growing environment matches how I would describe it. I have little-to-no interior emotional conflict and explicitly modeling others seems alien to me.
True, I didn’t mention emotional balance since it usually plays little role in my daily life. I used to have issues with managing extreme emotions in early childhood that I solved by both avoidance, and ‘dimming’ them to the point they are mostly manageable. I avoid anger in daily life because it was always unproductive for me in the past, and is incompatible with the social strategies I use nowadays (which I picked because I suck at social ‘tactics’).
The environment you describe matches up well, but not perfectly with the one I grew up in. I guess you can use that as a confirmation.
That again sounds pretty close to how I would have described myself earlier (and would mostly still describe). You didn’t write about your emotional balance but if you’re again like me, it would involve few excited states and fewer conflicted or what’s called negative states and emotions e.g., anger. If so, that would confirm my assumption that getting to such a uniform and stable state requires a certain environment. An environment that has little need for the developing brain and mind to overfit. No forced adaptations to environmental risks like loss of caretakers or life. But also an environment rich in information and worth exploring.
I would like to tag in as a 3rd in this group and say your estimate at my growing environment matches how I would describe it. I have little-to-no interior emotional conflict and explicitly modeling others seems alien to me.
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True, I didn’t mention emotional balance since it usually plays little role in my daily life. I used to have issues with managing extreme emotions in early childhood that I solved by both avoidance, and ‘dimming’ them to the point they are mostly manageable. I avoid anger in daily life because it was always unproductive for me in the past, and is incompatible with the social strategies I use nowadays (which I picked because I suck at social ‘tactics’).
The environment you describe matches up well, but not perfectly with the one I grew up in. I guess you can use that as a confirmation.
Thanks for sharing. I can relate even to the exceptions and resulting strategies.