So me talking about emotion is like Gandhi talking about gluttony, but it is the central organizing process of the way we think.

I'm not exactly comfortable with emotions.

We're really good at talking about material things, but we're really bad at talking about emotions.

We've said, could it be that positive emotions are simply easier to process than negative emotions, and so you switch to the positive emotions?

Secular stagnation and underconsumptionism are terms that betray an underlying pessimism, which, by discouraging spending, not only reinforces a weak economy, but also generates anger, intolerance, and a potential for violence.

And I can tell you stories about it, which makes it reflective, and so you'll see I have a theory of emotion.

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And we suspect that this may help to explain why older people are better than younger people at solving hotly charged emotional conflicts and debates.

And that is the translation of the feelings that we may have about compassion into the wider world, into action.

Leadership theorists suggest that we should pay less attention to leaders policy promises than to their emotional intelligence their self mastery and ability to reach out to others. Contrary to the view that emotions interfere with clear thinking, the ability to understand and regulate emotions can result in more effective thinking.

It's below your emotions.

The last thing is emotion.

But if you were to go to a game developers conference, what they're all talking about is emotion, purpose, meaning, understanding and feeling.

And under conditions where it really matters, older people do process the negative information just as well as the positive information.

And I'm on this.

Five kids had emotional breakdowns.

Okay, so when that happens everything lines up.

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Rainy days make me depressed.

And you can take them on an emotional all pitches, or all sales presentations, are emotional at some level.

In this second, consciously or unconsciously, the minute you decide to focus on something you've got to give it a meaning, and whatever that meaning is produces emotion.

And therefore, it's not a matter of opinion.

So the key here is empathy.

And of course, we are all about the struggle of emotions.

Our emotions are complex.

There are emotions of the victims.

Three things had combined to lay him low.

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Collect your thoughts before you begin your work.

The first drawback is that it turns out the pleasant life, your experience of positive emotion, is heritable, about 50 percent heritable, and, in fact, not very modifiable.

And what I mean specifically, rather than just some phrase, is if you have emotion, human emotion, something that I experienced from you a day before yesterday at a level that is as profound as I've ever experienced, and if you'd communicated with that emotion I believe you would have beat his ass and won.

It's emotional. There is so many interests.

It took me some time to come to my senses.

Tom tried to control his emotions.

Anti Chinese sentiment is on the rise in Myanmar.

There's no emotional reaction to his mother, because that wire going from the visual areas to the emotional centers is cut.

During his opening statement, Kavanaugh was very emotional, at times nearly shouting and choking up while discussing his family and his high school years.

Of course, empathy is not the only part of our inherited nature that shapes our behavior toward others. In fact, there is also a compelling evolutionary explanation for xenophobia.

We tend to think of emotions as just feelings.

This is as messy as it gets.

Or the sensual feeling.

Like, it's I can't get over this right now.

It's not. But it's important to recognize that the kind of emotions that come up when we start to think about these things, can get in the way, can make us pull back, can shut down our ability, and our interest in trying to explore new ideas.