Thursday, February 22, 2018
According to some people, one of the
worst things that a person can be is an obsessive. In fact there are
many tasks that require obsessive focus, and being of an obsessive
temperament can be an advantage in a number of pursuits.
If you are a researcher, being
obsessive helps. If you are a priest or a teacher, being passionate
helps. Some fields very much require obsessive approach; and the
people who think that people with such temperaments are necessarily
bad are wrong.
Now there are any number of people who
do not want obsessive attention directed at them. That is fine; it
can be directed at other things. The people with such temperaments
should be steered toward pursuits that require obsessive focus. And
of these there are many.
If someone can feel passionate about a
person to the point of being obsessive about them, then he can do the
same thing in other pursuits. He can become equally focused on God,
or on a cause, or on a research project. There are many in psychology
who think that such people are incurably sick; but all that this
means is that they have no idea how to deal with them. Basically they
do not know what they are doing. They do not know how to help such
people. It does not mean that nobody can.
The solution with the obsessive types
is to direct their obsessive attention toward pursuits that are
viable. Direct them at God. Direct them at causes. Direct them at
projects that require obsessive focus. Give them something to focus
upon that they can feel passionately about and pursue relentlessly.
The result will not only be these people doing something productive
rather than annoying. It will be the world benefiting vastly from
what they have to give.
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