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The simple answer, is that feeling beliefs are generalizations of the feeling experiences a person has had or is having.
Feelings are a product
1) of the situation the person is in,
2) the vision they have of the world, and
3)... See more
There is a skill of how to access information from your emotions.
Most people don’t know how.
They literally cannot read their feelings, in the same way that illiterates cannot read words.
Intellectuals are often illiterate *plus* deny it’s possible to learn to... See more
Anger can be motivating if you step back to analyze it
Let’s say someone has both a high-functioning theory of mind and an overflowing well of compassion. What then? Well, this is what Hoffman calls “empathic over-arousal.” A person will feel so worn down by the intensity of other people’s emotions that it wears them down — it turns their distress into my actual distress. This might not seem like a bad... See more