What do you analyze?

[composer]

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Computing
Economics and investing
INTP/MBTI

[skip]

Everything, naturally.

Primarily? Hm... literature, film, television, languages, music, nutrition/health, riding, typology, sociology, choreography, cooking, theme parks, travel, teaching, earthquakes... erm... everything. Even cleaning: I just purchased some professional cleaning equipment after weeks of analyzing and comparing brands and prices.

[avolkiteshvara]

Composer, did you win the lottery, quit your job and start a campaign of random threads?

[composer]

Composer, did you win the lottery, quit your job and start a campaign of random threads?

Yes, yes, and yes.

[JamesGold]

Class schedules and the future of my education. For now.

Things I don't analyze: everything skip said.

[starjots]

Yes, yes, and yes.

lucky bastard. Any purchases, history and pre-history, the human condition, weird ideas that float through

[synagogue]

I analyze 1) things that I see as useful towards my development and 2) things that engage/entertain my mind as a matter of idle curiosity/recreation.

I analyze whatever draws my attention; these things fit in one of these two categories.

Alternatively, I perfunctorily analyze whatever sneaks in-between.

[lpethe]

relationships, individuals, small groups of people, anything that catches my fancy momentarily, sensations like taste, sex, storytelling and comedy, and mostly myself.

[giegs]

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[bluebell]

Since I was a kid, anything that feeds into the grand unified mental model of life, the universe and everything.

I also overanalyse way too many aspects of day to day life.

[djm]

Myself, rather too much for my own good.

Motivations, I like to work out what prompted events / actions, primarily this is with politics and history.

Plants. I can't walk past a fruit or vegetable market without giving the display a once over to see what minor nutrient deficiencies there are, which crops grew best, which had physiological disorders, what the growing conditions were that made them their shape / colour/ size. Professional curiosity. Same with landscapes actually.

But primarily myself, the way I react to things, why I react that way.

[djm]

The OP would have been more interesting if it also asked 'what do you not analyze?'

I don't analyze individuals, and what they will do. Leastways I consciously avoid doing so, where I am capable of stopping myself*.

Having spent large parts of my life where I have been somewhat at the mercy of the decisions and whims of others I found that trying to understand why people do things, or predicting what they will do is a zero sum game. You can't ever really predict others, as people are not rational, and do strange things. Better to prepare yourself to cope with change / flux/ movement than to burn yourself out trying to second guess individuals.

People can't be mathematised, there is no algorithm or system to understand them. Analysing them brings nothing.

*and where I am not it brings me nothing but angst.

[lpethe]

thats interesting. some of the motivation you give for not wanting to analyze people is why i do it. although it seems that ive found more success than you.

because they can have power or influence over you and often don't make immediate sense is the perfect reason to try to understand them. actually, i would say the main theme of things i analyze are things that are out of your control but unavoidable or influential. makes sense to me that if it is out of your hands the best you can do is know enough to predict it.

[bass_n_treble]

relationships, individuals, small groups of people, anything that catches my fancy momentarily, sensations like taste, sex, storytelling and comedy, and mostly myself.

This.

Are you a 5w6 by chance?

[Ptah]

Answers to the question, "Why?" applied wherever I find it can be applied.

[Faust06]

Women, economics, nutrition, music, technology and sci-fi, gaming psychology.

I like analyzing individuals at times to help me with conversation, or if they are an opponent, but I don't find the details terribly interesting. I generalize and lump people into groups.

[ObtainGnosis]

Things I typically analyze:

Societal trends, metaphysics, religious and mystical experience, neurotic tendencies in myself and others, psychology in the work place, the neuropsychological implications and effects of certain psychoactive drugs, any institutional or cultural forces that I view as threatening to the liberation of the individual from a confused and disempowered psychological state, i.e. mainstream media, state power, vulgar or false forms of religion (such as orthodox christianity), squirrely ideas, corporate corruption, sports fanaticism, conformity among specific groups, the pros and cons of higher education (how it helps and how it distorts real progress), anti-intellectualism, false forms of happiness, false or hypocritical moral reasoning, misleading depictions of human romantic relations in social media, basically all the ways in which our culture and institutions are training us from a young age to believe and behave in ways that are contrary, not only to nature, but to our psychological well-being, inner freedom, and creative potential.