> I still find my self looking-down on people who are often less "technical" and who therefore struggle to understand logical things but then I struggle to enjoy myself, to throw caution to the wind sometimes and to do things that I can look back on and say "I'm glad I took that risk".
Something I always tell my mentees is that your strength and weakness are the two faces of the same coin. Your logic and rationality very likely enable you to have a great career and a stable life that is devoid of stupid risk that other people ruin their lives with. Logic is a gift. But at the same time, the use of this "tool" is limiting in some other ways, as you have outlined.
On the flip side, someone may be very emotional/impulsive and enjoy the things you are currently "pining" for but at the same time have other parts of their life be a total mess because of it.
The answer is to recognize that what we have, even if it works very well for us, as a tool. Logic is a tool that generally serves you well. But at times, there are places to recognize to put that tool down because it's not appropriate or necessary for the situation at hand.
The analogy is something like this - let's say you're a sharp shooter in the army. You have your career and you make an impact because of your knowledge of how to shoot a gun well. But you don't want to limit your life experiences to situations where using a gun is a solution, nor do you want to use the gun inappropriately. The answer is to say: I love my sharp-shooting skills but here is a situation where I need to put the gun down and just have a coffee with my friend, or whatever.
Something I always tell my mentees is that your strength and weakness are the two faces of the same coin. Your logic and rationality very likely enable you to have a great career and a stable life that is devoid of stupid risk that other people ruin their lives with. Logic is a gift. But at the same time, the use of this "tool" is limiting in some other ways, as you have outlined.
On the flip side, someone may be very emotional/impulsive and enjoy the things you are currently "pining" for but at the same time have other parts of their life be a total mess because of it.
The answer is to recognize that what we have, even if it works very well for us, as a tool. Logic is a tool that generally serves you well. But at times, there are places to recognize to put that tool down because it's not appropriate or necessary for the situation at hand.
The analogy is something like this - let's say you're a sharp shooter in the army. You have your career and you make an impact because of your knowledge of how to shoot a gun well. But you don't want to limit your life experiences to situations where using a gun is a solution, nor do you want to use the gun inappropriately. The answer is to say: I love my sharp-shooting skills but here is a situation where I need to put the gun down and just have a coffee with my friend, or whatever.