Yes. My System 1/elephant keeps forgetting that there exists such a thing as shyness,¹ and as a result it repeatedly misinterprets ‘[I like you, but I’m too shy to show you]’ as ‘[I don’t like you, but I’m too polite to show you]’.
Well, I’m often shy myself, but only when initiating an interaction. When the interaction has already started, I usually have no problem whatsoever reciprocating, unless I actually don’t like the other person. And my System 1 generalizes from one example and finds it hard to alieve that other people can be too shy to continue an interaction that’s already started unless they don’t like me.
Yes. My System 1/elephant keeps forgetting that there exists such a thing as shyness,¹ and as a result it repeatedly misinterprets ‘[I like you, but I’m too shy to show you]’ as ‘[I don’t like you, but I’m too polite to show you]’.
Well, I’m often shy myself, but only when initiating an interaction. When the interaction has already started, I usually have no problem whatsoever reciprocating, unless I actually don’t like the other person. And my System 1 generalizes from one example and finds it hard to alieve that other people can be too shy to continue an interaction that’s already started unless they don’t like me.