Talking to the animalistic you
Feb. 12th, 2022 05:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kiteinspaceSo the people who have the best morals should be in charge but sometimes they're not the ones that do the best job when they're in charge.
This is because having good morals and being able to MANAGE people are two different skills.
There are people who wouldn't be able to articulate their larger morals but they can lead a team because they know instinctually how to herd people to accomplish a task.
There are people who are very intellectually sound, have extremely good theories about the world, but they crash and burn in a leadership role because managing people will bring out the most intense emotions in you. a wide range of intense emotions. And when that happens, when you are exhausted and you are the worst version of you, being able to be the worst version of you is a skill that the people with very good morals do not have.
See the thing with morals and social theory is it's a focus on a good theoretical system, aka it's a goal that you want to get to. And seeing what a goal looks like is a very intellectual task. Now actually getting to that goal, aka facing obstacles between you and your goal in the forms of how to manage the people around you and your relationship to those people, that's going to be the domain of your animalistic side. Because your animal side is the one that likes being in a pack. It likes to be interacted with in a certain way. It can make others in your pack feel at ease.
The people who are very intellectually able to analyze the ramifications of the decisions made about other people around them have developed their rational mind so much, because it's so difficult in this complicated era to understand the things that people do to each other, that sometimes they neglect their relationships with others. How to amicably exist among people, how to address conflicts, how to love themselves and others in a practical, everyday sense - sometimes they're not as good at it.
I will, of course, become good at all of it.
This is because having good morals and being able to MANAGE people are two different skills.
There are people who wouldn't be able to articulate their larger morals but they can lead a team because they know instinctually how to herd people to accomplish a task.
There are people who are very intellectually sound, have extremely good theories about the world, but they crash and burn in a leadership role because managing people will bring out the most intense emotions in you. a wide range of intense emotions. And when that happens, when you are exhausted and you are the worst version of you, being able to be the worst version of you is a skill that the people with very good morals do not have.
See the thing with morals and social theory is it's a focus on a good theoretical system, aka it's a goal that you want to get to. And seeing what a goal looks like is a very intellectual task. Now actually getting to that goal, aka facing obstacles between you and your goal in the forms of how to manage the people around you and your relationship to those people, that's going to be the domain of your animalistic side. Because your animal side is the one that likes being in a pack. It likes to be interacted with in a certain way. It can make others in your pack feel at ease.
The people who are very intellectually able to analyze the ramifications of the decisions made about other people around them have developed their rational mind so much, because it's so difficult in this complicated era to understand the things that people do to each other, that sometimes they neglect their relationships with others. How to amicably exist among people, how to address conflicts, how to love themselves and others in a practical, everyday sense - sometimes they're not as good at it.
I will, of course, become good at all of it.
