To put it straight: you are not a passive receiver of sensory input (emotion doesn’t “hit you”). When the concepts involved are emotion concepts, our brain generate instances of emotion. However, they are not objectively real like molecules or neurons, but real in the same sense as money – a product of human agreement.Īll our past experiences are organized as concepts by our brains, and then used to guide our actions and give our sensations meanings.
Emotions are CONSTRUCTEDįirst we need to omit that people do experience varies feelings, some of which can be so dramatic that it stats to affect our physical performance. If you don’t mind to know the science behind emotion, but still want to be benefit from it, I made it easy for you to go straight to real-life implementation so you can use this book to improve your emotional life.
I also believe these are the basic knowledge that everyone should understand about themselves. Being aware of where emotions come from put us at a better position of self-monitoring, which can be very helpful at time where negative emotions become overwhelming. It is quite a lengthy book, thus I am only focusing on the sections which I find useful and worth to know. This is a partial summary of the book How Emotions Are made.
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