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I have to reevaluate them, try and separate out the material things and my emotions that may be enslaving me, so that I can see the world clearly.
He realizes that to succeed, he does not have to be a "professional," he does not have to cut out his emotions, he has to include all these people in his world to succeed, to make them happy, to make the boss happy, to make everyone happy.
For emotions, we should not move quickly to the desert.
And then let's think how compassion informs wisdom, and that vulnerability is our greatest strength, and that emotions have inherent logic, which lead to radical, appropriate, saving action.
And then let's remember that we've been taught the exact opposite by the powers that be, that compassion clouds your thinking, that it gets in the way, that vulnerability is weakness, that emotions are not to be trusted, and you're not supposed to take things personally, which is one of my favorites.
In a moment, I'm going to ask if you would close your eyes and see if you can work out what emotions you're feeling right now.
There are some emotions which wash the world in a single color, like the terror felt as a car skids.
But more often, our emotions crowd and jostle together until it is actually quite hard to tell them apart.
And of course, there are some emotions which are so peculiar, you might not even know what to call them.
Perhaps you experienced one of those odd, untranslatable emotions for which there's no obvious English equivalent.
We live in an age when knowledge of emotions is an extremely important commodity, where emotions are used to explain many things, exploited by our politicians, manipulated by algorithms.
Emotional intelligence, which is the skill of being able to recognize and name your own emotions and those of other people, is considered so important, that this is taught in our schools and businesses and encouraged by our health services.
But despite all of this, I sometimes wonder if the way we think about emotions is becoming impoverished.
You've probably heard the theory that our entire emotional lives can be boiled down to a handful of basic emotions.
What if we were to think again about those odd, untranslatable words for emotions and wonder whether some cultures might feel an emotion more intensely just because they've bothered to name and talk about it, like the Russian "toska," a feeling of maddening dissatisfaction said to blow in from the great plains.
The most recent developments in cognitive science show that emotions are not simple reflexes, but immensely complex, elastic systems that respond both to the biologies that we've inherited and to the cultures that we live in now.
The neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett has become very interested in this dynamic relationship between words and emotions.
As a historian, I've long suspected that as language changes, our emotions do, too.
When we look to the past, it's easy to see that emotions have changed, sometimes very dramatically, in response to new cultural expectations and religious beliefs, new ideas about gender, ethnicity and age, even in response to new political and economic ideologies.
There is a historicity to emotions that we are only recently starting to understand.
So I agree absolutely that it does us good to learn new words for emotions, but I think we need to go further.
It's important to understand that these large historical changes influence our emotions partly because they affect how we feel about how we feel.
Of course, our emotions don't just change across time, they also change from place to place.
One of my favorite emotions is a Japanese word, "amae."
Most people who tell us to pay attention to our well-being talk of the importance of naming our emotions.
Learning new and unusual words for emotions will help attune us to the more finely grained aspects of our inner lives.
True emotional intelligence requires that we understand the social, the political, the cultural forces that have shaped what we've come to believe about our emotions and understand how happiness or hatred or love or anger might still be changing now.
Because if we want to measure our emotions and teach them in our schools and listen as our politicians tell us how important they are, then it is a good idea that we understand where the assumptions we have about them have come from, and whether they still truly speak to us now.
What are the emotions that can be measured?
That does not hold for emotions.
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