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The full talk is in the Feifan series on Fanshu, a Chinese audiobook app; this page is only a summary.
What This Episode Covers
How well do you understand your own emotions?
When someone cuts in line, do you shrug it off or blow your top? When you feel anxious, do you let it go quickly, or does it keep nagging at you?
Different people experience different emotions in response to the same events. Behind these emotions are choices, one after another. From everyday life to moments of crisis, it’s hard to make the right decisions without emotions.
Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking will take you on a fresh exploration of the emotional world, helping you understand and take charge of your emotions. Every emotion is a life-giving talent you were born with.
You’ll hear about
- How to understand the role emotions play
- The three main ways emotions participate in decision-making
- Three new ways to regulate emotions, drawing on the latest scientific insights
Quote of the Episode
There are no absolutely bad emotions—only emotions that don’t fit the situation.
Emotions aren’t our enemies. They’re an important resource for us to understand, use, and manage.
Our remarkable resilience comes from mental flexibility, and that flexibility is, to a large extent, rooted in the complexity of human emotions.
Emotions can carry us to the depths of sadness or the heights of happiness. They’re the main driving force behind the choices we make and the actions we take, as well as the reason we set goals and pursue them.
About the Author
Leonard Mlodinow American theoretical physicist and science writer. He’s also a well-known Hollywood screenwriter, game designer, and publisher. His major works include A Briefer History of Time, co-written with Stephen Hawking, as well as Euclid’s Window, Feynman’s Rainbow, Subliminal, Elastic, and The History of the Mind.
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