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The Vibe Handbook, Part Three: Practical Sorcery - by BLAP

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One kind of cognition specializes in evaluating propositions. Another kind specializes in conjuring and manipulating vibes. You’d more typically use the word intelligence to describe having a strong logic engine, but there’s another flavor of cognitive strength, which is having a strong vibe engine. Whereas propositional intelligence encompasses talent at math, reading, and memory, vibe-engine intelligence links virtues like imagination, empathy, and ability to “read people.” We make fun of self-proclaimed empaths because they try to identify as a special category instead of part of a normally distributed spectrum, but you can make the same complaint about lots of traits. We don’t scorn people who label themselves introverts (even though extroversion/introversion is a bell curve) or say “I have ADHD” (even though executive function is a bell curve). And vibe-sensitivity is a bell curve too, containing a two-sigma region like any other. Some people

One kind of cognition specializes in evaluating propositions. Another kind specializes in conjuring and manipulating vibes. You’d more typically use the word intelligence to describe having a strong logic engine, but there’s another flavor of cognitive strength, which is having a strong vibe engine. Whereas propositional intelligence encompasses talent at math, reading, and memory, vibe-engine intelligence links virtues like imagination, empathy, and ability to “read people.” We make fun of self-proclaimed empaths because they try to identify as a special category instead of part of a…

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