RE: Thoughts about the stereotype of rational people being incompatible with feelings
I think this kind of links back to your article on reasoning. The whole right brain left brain.
Like when we think of logical brain, it's all about getting the job done, its about rationality. Without some action in the right brain, I think emotion is harder to come by.
The reason I say this is because I witnessed it in my own life. For the first 20-25 years of my life I was really unemotional, I could be happy, but I couldn't express sadness, grief, anger, or any "negative" emotions in a healthy way. I feel like I had shut off some part of myself to the point where I couldn't feel.
Addressing things as they come up has helped me get past this and open up to feeling more. So I think that if we get to the point where we shut off our emotions, or rather shut them out, we can start to fit that stereotype and start focusing only on work or school or something that doesn't require much emotion.
I do feel that certain jobs will lend to one side or another. Like most artists seem like they are open to emotion because you can see it in their work. In the same way you can see that in a creative and innovative scientist, you just don't expect to because there are more rules and guidelines in creating a study.
Sorry if I rambled! haha nice write-up
I agree, depending on the daily activities we do, we will tend to develop certain aspects of ourselves and certain ways of thinking over others. Nevertheless, this doesn't mean a profession determines the personality of a person.
What you tell me about the incapacity to express negative feelings is more common that one could think, negative feelings are mostly about vulnerability, and sometimes we for the most part don't want to look or much less, be vulnerable, so what do we do? we block the things that make us feel like that. The negatives feelings you mentioned like
are hard to express if we are not with people we truly trust.