Feeling Smart - Why Our Emotions Are More Rational Than We ThinkPevná vazba
Feeling Smart - Why Our Emotions Are More Rational Than We ThinkPevná vazba Which is smarter -- your head or your gut? Try and think rationally. It's a familiar refrain: you're getting too…
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Feeling Smart - Why Our Emotions Are More Rational Than We ThinkPevná vazba
Which is smarter -- your head or your gut? Try and think rationally. It's a familiar refrain: you're getting too emotional.
If they lead to such bad decisions, why hasn't evolution long since made emotions irrelevant? But is it always good advice?In this surprising book, Eyal Winter asks a simple question: why do we have emotions? The answer is that, even though they may not behave in a purely logical manner, our emotions frequently lead us to better, safer, more optimal outcomes.In fact, as Winter discovers, there is often logic in emotion, and emotion in logic.
For instance, many mutually beneficial commitments -- such as marriage, or being a member of a team -- are only possible when underscored by emotion rather than deliberate thought. The difference between pleasurable music and bad noise is mathematically precise; yet it is also something we feel at an