[Epistemic status: anecdata and perspective generation]
I think it’s not right in the general case, but it may be more right than not as an approximation here, since what’s described might be indicative of defaults regarding intensity. In my experience, default intensities do feel roughly bimodal among my peers, and in fact one of my current life strategy issues is to figure out how not to fall too far into line with the less-intense subset that currently dominate my social graph.
Another read on that might be that even when the resultant intensities differ widely between activities and situations and may overlap or cross over between a “win-first” individual and a “chill-first” individual, there’s still an underlying difference in something like focus, salience, or differential habituation to up-regulation versus down-regulation of intensity.
[Epistemic status: anecdata and perspective generation]
I think it’s not right in the general case, but it may be more right than not as an approximation here, since what’s described might be indicative of defaults regarding intensity. In my experience, default intensities do feel roughly bimodal among my peers, and in fact one of my current life strategy issues is to figure out how not to fall too far into line with the less-intense subset that currently dominate my social graph.
Another read on that might be that even when the resultant intensities differ widely between activities and situations and may overlap or cross over between a “win-first” individual and a “chill-first” individual, there’s still an underlying difference in something like focus, salience, or differential habituation to up-regulation versus down-regulation of intensity.