Sort of like emotional intelligence done with logic instead of intuition, and not from the inside out, but from a desired result worked backwards to a prerequisite action.
This just pinged something else for me -- Mark, in the Vorkosigan books. Occasionally Lois writes him doing exactly that, and it's fascinating to watch him working this stuff out in his head because it doesn't come naturally to him.
For that matter, I sometimes have to do it myself -- I'm a Thinker, not a Feeler (MBTI) and don't have the emotional reflexes that women are "supposed" to have. But, having figured that out, I can remember to remind myself to make the right emotional response.
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Re: Moving chess pieces
Date: 2015-01-01 09:54 am (UTC)This just pinged something else for me -- Mark, in the Vorkosigan books. Occasionally Lois writes him doing exactly that, and it's fascinating to watch him working this stuff out in his head because it doesn't come naturally to him.
For that matter, I sometimes have to do it myself -- I'm a Thinker, not a Feeler (MBTI) and don't have the emotional reflexes that women are "supposed" to have. But, having figured that out, I can remember to remind myself to make the right emotional response.