From fd2f8d0ce6a903670b8a8ac31b5676181d1dd690 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Nu=C3=B1o=20Sempere?= Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2018 23:59:38 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Create Different-Ideals.md --- rat/Different-Ideals.md | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) create mode 100644 rat/Different-Ideals.md diff --git a/rat/Different-Ideals.md b/rat/Different-Ideals.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..adc0f8c --- /dev/null +++ b/rat/Different-Ideals.md @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +# On people who have different ideals than my own. + +Sometimes, I talk to some people and after some time, I detect that I don't really care much about their objectives in life. On occasion, they are doing horribly by the standards I care about, or are just not that interesting to me. Picture Cristiano Ronaldo, football star, who is doing terribly by my standards. I would consider becoming more like him to be losing at life. But presumably CR7 has enough self-esteem that he would just shrug. He is winning at life according to his criteria, I'd wager. + +But people don't usually shrug. Instead, many choose to take offense when I decrease my probability that talking to them for longer will enrich my life. People also object to using probabilities: after I tried to connect two girls who were weird in the same way, I was told that "attraction is more subtle than that". + +Yes, attraction is more complicated than that, but I'd still be delighted if someone came up to be and introduced me to someone who was weird in the same ways as I am. Anyways, I suppose I should get myself some subtlety & social skills.