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How Emotions Are Made: The Theory of Constructed Emotion
- The brain uses concepts to make sense of data. Emotions like “fear,” “sadness,” and “disappointment” are concepts just like any other. Just as your brain interprets a pattern of light as a “window,” it might interpret a pattern of bodily sensations as “fear” or “disappointment.”
from How Emotions Are Made: The Theory of Constructed Emotion by Tiago Forte
Emilie Kormienko added 3y ago
- Modern culture, from refined sugars to social media, disrupt our body budgets, leading to compounding negative effects.
from How Emotions Are Made: The Theory of Constructed Emotion by Tiago Forte
Emilie Kormienko added 3y ago
- Everything your body does, inside or out, requires energy. To manage its “body budget” across hundreds of body parts and billions of cells, the brain has to constantly predict the body’s energy needs. Many of these “budgetary changes” we experience as emotional experiences.
from How Emotions Are Made: The Theory of Constructed Emotion by Tiago Forte
Emilie Kormienko added 3y ago
- The range of emotions a person can experience is limited by their emotional granularity – the ability to construct and identify more precise emotional experiences.
from How Emotions Are Made: The Theory of Constructed Emotion by Tiago Forte
Emilie Kormienko added 3y ago
- "Experiential blindness” is the inability to perceive what you don’t already have a concept for.
from How Emotions Are Made: The Theory of Constructed Emotion by Tiago Forte
Emilie Kormienko added 3y ago
- Emotions are predictions the brain uses to prepare for what is coming next.
from How Emotions Are Made: The Theory of Constructed Emotion by Tiago Forte
Emilie Kormienko added 3y ago
- Six steps to improve your emotional granularity: try on new perspectives, recategorize what you're feeling, talk about what you're feeling, move your body, improve your vocabulary, write about your experiences.
from How Emotions Are Made: The Theory of Constructed Emotion by Tiago Forte
Emilie Kormienko added 3y ago