How to be less rational?

Today we are gonna talk about hyper rational saboteur -  Intense and exclusive focus on the rational processing of everything, including relationships. 

You know that you have a hyper rational if this rings true: 

- Your self worth is attached to mastering knowledge and competence. 

- Feelings are irrelevant distractions and a sign of weakness.

- Why can’t everybody be more rational?  World would be a better place if everyone just shoved their emotions aside. 

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- Skeptical of everything unless there is the science to back it up

- You need to understand something intellectually for it to make sense. 

- The way to connect to feeling something is by being passionate about ideas. 

- you aspire to being the smartest person in the room.

For everyone around, a hyper rational can be perceived as cold, distant, and intellectually arrogant even intimidating.  A hyper rational way of interacting flattens the experience of life to science only. It Limits the depth of relationships to realistic and rational and robs them of experiencing life fully. Because of this a hyper rational can end up feeling different, alone, and not understood.

Here are some things you can try out to tame your hyper rational:

- Think of a toolbox. Your mind is a hammer, very useful. Yet other tools are also very important. 

- Experiment with putting the hammer aside and instead experience what is. Let yourself be surprised. 

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- In your interactions with people notice that you often have a choice between being right or happy. Let go of being right and see what happens, 

- Do something irrational. 

- Observe someone very emotional and instead of judging them, let yourself be amazed by the depth of their experience.

- Think of smart (knowing facts) vs. wise. (Having multiple perspectives and flexibility. )

I would love to help you with your hyper rational saboteur, check out my 6 week program in the link below. To see which saboteurs you have, do the sab test. 

 

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