Recently, I started to enjoy a new aspect of using logical sense. That told me that there are two kinds of logical fun: expressive enjoyment and rational enjoyment. Although I explained them several times recently, let’s discuss them more deeply from the perspective of our lifestyles.
What lifestyle suits us?
Sometimes, we want to enjoy life.
One of the pleasures is demonstrating our uniqueness. We frequently experience pleasure differently from others. We might have difficulty with socializing, competition, and collaborative teamwork.
However, we sometimes don’t know what kind of lifestyle suits us. That confuses us. We sometimes pursue only popular trends yet remain unsatisfied.
That is why we want to know a lifestyle that suits us.
One solution is to understand the desires our logical ability brings us. It makes us desire independence, expression, and rationality. Identifying them might help you show your talent more efficiently.
The lifestyle of logical people
Our logical sense affects our wants. It makes us want to be independent. Then, we enjoy using expressions and rationality depending on the situation.
Let’s look at them in detail below.
One of our distinguishing abilities is logical sense. Logic provides wisdom that experience cannot tell.
Independence is one way of demonstrating our logical ability. That allows us to improve society logically.
When we show logical sense, we look at society or the community we belong to as a whole. Then, we try to fill in the missing parts. We learn necessary elements, think logically, build and try new methods, share our successful results with others, and make their lives more efficient. After we satisfy a particular need or when social trends change, we reassess society and shift our focus to another inefficient area. That would be a typical desire in logical people’s lifestyles.
That is why we love independence, a broader perspective, and sometimes desire to change the place we work. We dislike a perfect place without areas for improvement. Even if there is room for improvement, we don’t want to be a part of society without the freedom to make progress. We want to decide for ourselves and make improvements.
That is the creative, logical life. We cannot change this fundamental want.
Expressing ourselves vs. showing rationality
In our logical life, there are two kinds of ways to make improvements, as follows:
- Expressing ourselves is a logical means we use when we are the weakest in society or when we have not yet developed our reasoning skills. It allows us to help weak people like us, even when we are helpless and inexperienced. It is more efficient to pour our various contradictory feelings into a single work.
- Showing rationality is the main logical means we use after developing reasoning skills. It is more efficient to narrow down the most effective, optimal methods rather than trying to show all our experiences and abilities.
Distinguishing them enables us to apply our logical ability appropriately at each stage of life.
They have contradictory aspects, although they are parts of the same logical enjoyment.
In expressing ourselves, we will often find it more enjoyable to pour our various inner passions into a single work. Since the purpose of expressing ourselves is to recognize our inner feelings with words, limiting those passions is pointless. We don’t need to hesitate to show our inner confusion. That makes our creations enjoyable.
On the other hand, when we show rationality, narrowing down our means makes it more enjoyable. We predict which skill and experience improve the situation the most. If we lack them, we learn them. Learning efficiently is one form of logical activity. It includes doing multiple trials and errors. We don’t rely on our inner emotions and past experiences unless it is urgent. That makes our creations enjoyable.
How we can enjoy life
That logic shows us how we can enjoy life.
We don’t need to suppress our emotions. The distinction between a state and a means tells us the reason.
For example, we cannot run 100 meters in 10 seconds just by imagining it. We have to train our physical muscles and senses. Acting as if we can run fast doesn’t always mean it is a way to actually run fast. We also don’t need to stimulate our motivation to run faster because we know it is unreasonable. If it has rationality, it naturally motivates us, even without imagining a successful state.
The same goes for our mental treatment. Letting go of our emotions is a state after we develop enough reasoning skills. It is a state, not a means. We don’t have to let go of our emotions. Although many spiritualists teach to forgive negative emotions, it is pointless for logical people.
When we are logical and immature, expressing ourselves is an effective means. We need to neither limit our expression nor worry about the exhaustion of expressive motivation. It is a process of shifting to rationality. As we express ourselves, decreasing our motivation is natural.
Expressing ourselves and showing rationality are both enjoyable. When we become rational, our abundance, including the joy of life, will naturally increase. This distinction allows us to discern an effective way to treat our wants.
Conclusion
That is a lifestyle that suits logical people, like us.
Our logical sense affects our wants. It makes us want to be independent. Then, we enjoy using expressions and rationality appropriately depending on the situation.
Identifying them might help you show your talent more efficiently.
Thank you for reading this article. I hope to see you in the next one.
