In your feelings? Turns out, we all experience emotions differently
Uncertainty. Anger. Despair. Envy. When you’re overwhelmed by big feelings, it can seem like you’re the only one who is struggling. But having difficult emotions doesn’t mean you’re malfunctioning. It means you’re human.
Mollie West Duffy • Big Feelings: How to Be Okay When Things Are Not Okay
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All of our values and morals, all of the meaning we perceive in life, stem from our knowledge that there are some very different ways a person can feel.we don’t make much of a point of understanding and adjusting for our emotional states. We even overlook the simple fact that we’re always in the middle of one, however subtle.
David Cain • A Basic Skill We Should Have Learned as Kids
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experiencing them. Instead, the goal is to learn to identify our emotions, analyze their cause, and if they’re not actually part of our rational decision process—and more often than not, they aren’t—dismiss them as sources of information.
Maria Konnikova • The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win
Like the rest of us, psychologists wonder whether emotions feel the same to people from different cultures around the world. Recent research from the MARCS Institute for Brain, Behavior and Development, at Western Sydney University, summarized in Discover Magazine, tried to figure it out. The researchers looked at how communities with varying level... See more
Pamela Pavliscak • Ghost in the machine
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feelings should be combined with evidence, reason and the ever-vigilant awareness that they might not reflect the full landscape of what’s actually going on and what you happen to have noticed within it.
Michael Ashcroft • Achieve Your Goals with Less Grinding - Expanding Awareness - Every
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And I hope you can see why this is difficult. It’s in the nature of feelings to make it hard to tell the valuable ones from the harmful ones, the reliable from the misleading. One thing all feelings have in common is that they were originally “designed” to convince you to follow them. They feel right and true almost by definition. They actively dis
... See moreRobert Wright • Why Buddhism Is True
The more you know and pay attention to your emotional state, the more your work and leadership will flow from an authentic place, and the more you will be able to pay attention to others and lead in a healthy and empowered way. You have to tell yourself, “I’m not going to be dominated by my emotions, nor am I going to deny them. I’m going to be awa
... See moreChris McAlister • Figure That Shift Out
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