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You Have to Feel It

(mitchellh.com)
359 points tosh | 1 comments | 30 Aug 25 14:38 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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mcdeltat ◴[30 Aug 25 22:47 UTC] No.45078646[source]▶
I've learnt that just about everything in life boils down to feelings, which is interesting. No matter how rational a person or people claim to be, usually it comes down to feelings... Life choices? Business decisions? Who gets promoted? It's all vibes and feelings. People will deliberate and argue over facts but ultimately there will be some "weighting" factor which is feelings and will make or break the outcome. You can have a perfectly argued decision that fails some vibe check and is hence discarded. Or a terrible argument that plays to some emotional point so is accepted. It's all feelings. Rare is the opposite.
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kingkawn ◴[30 Aug 25 23:18 UTC] No.45078868[source]▶
This distinction is an absurdity first written to provide a rational for why everything being done in the name of Reason felt so bad.
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1. reval ◴[31 Aug 25 01:29 UTC] No.45079522[source]▶
There is something to this. I believe that if you cannot feel, you also cannot reason. It’s almost as if intellectual ability is an application of emotionality rather than something separate. For example, when something makes sense to you, what does that really mean? In my experience, when something “clicks”, that is not intellect. The intellect kicks in to retroactively explain the feeling. The “clicking” itself- that’s the feeling.