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As it turns out, facial EMG presents a serious challenge to the classical view of emotion. In study after study, the muscle movements do not reliably indicate when someone is angry, sad, or fearful; they don’t form predictable fingerprints for each emotion. At best, facial EMG reveals that these movements distinguish pleasant versus unpleasant feel
... See moreLisa Feldman Barrett • How Emotions Are Made
Our emotions are, in effect, reactions, which are generated by the positive or negative responses of the ego/personality.
Stuart Wilde • Silent Power
all emotions are derivations of five core feelings: happiness, sadness, anger, fear, and shame.
Jean Greaves • Emotional Intelligence 2.0
Emotions are one of the main things that derail communication. Once people get upset at one another, rational thinking goes out the window.
Tahl Raz • Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It
there’s always a little truth behind every “just kidding,”
…a little knowledge behind every “I don’t know,”
…a little emotion behind every “I don’t care,”
and a little pain behind every “I’m okay!”
Always lead with empathy—be compassionate when people share their feelings with you.
#GrowWithAJ
subliminal reactions to the emotions,
Stuart Wilde • Infinite Self: 33 Steps to Reclaiming Your Inner Power
Brackett reports that when you ask people in public where they are on the mood meter, almost everybody will say they are having positive emotions. When you ask people in confidential surveys where they are, 60 to 70 percent will put themselves on the negative-emotion side of the mood meter. That result is haunting, because it suggests that many of
... See moreDavid Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
“I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. I possess tremendous power to make life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration, I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations
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