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Involvement and Attachment
We often get confused between our attachment to and our involvement in a situation. Most often we do not even differentiate at all between the two, leading us to the wrong conclusion that they invariably go together.
Joseph O’Connor made a differentiation between involvement and attachment. By involvement he meant the ability and willingness to affect a situation, while attachment signifies how much the outcome affects you, how much you identify with something. It is a different way of looking at whether you feel “at cause” or “at effect” of a situation, but maybe more clearly delineates the two orthogonal states of mind.
Read more on my blog post Involvement & Attachment, or how life is like playing Chess
Involvement and Attachment
We often get confused between our attachment to and our involvement in a situation. Most often we do not even differentiate at all between the two, leading us to the wrong conclusion that they invariably go together.
Joseph O’Connor made a differentiation between involvement and attachment. By involvement he meant the ability and willingness to affect a situation, while attachment signifies how much the outcome affects you, how much you identify with something. It is a different way of looking at whether you feel “at cause” or “at effect” of a situation, but maybe more clearly delineates the two orthogonal states of mind.
Read more on my blog post Involvement & Attachment, or how life is like playing Chess