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Tag Archives: reason
The Importance of Emotional Intelligence
Over the past few centuries, there has been an increasing shift toward focusing on intellect and away from emotions. I fear that this has been a giant mistake. Allow me to explain. In The Righteous Mind, Jonathan Haidt compares the … Continue reading
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Tagged dog, emotional intelligence, emotions, feelings, intellect, Jonathan Haidt, logic, Marshall Rosenberg, reason, Sawyer, The Importance of Emotional Intelligence, The Righteous Mind, thoughts
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Emotions and Logic: A Perfect Match
Where’s the logic in a piece of art that makes your heart soar, whether it’s a song, book, movie, painting, sculpture, performance, or any other kind of art? There is no logic there. Art isn’t supposed to be logical; it’s … Continue reading
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Tagged animals, art, Consistency, emotions, Emotions and Logic: A Perfect Match, feelings, logic, reason
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Logical Shortcomings
In a past post, I talked about some things I’ve learned regarding to reason and rationality. Books such as The Righteous Mind, Thinking, Fast and Slow, and Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion have shown me just how irrational and unreasonable we … Continue reading
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Tagged Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, logic, Logical Shortcomings, rationality, reason, The Righteous Mind, Thinking Fast and Slow, Watching My Thoughts
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Review of Thinking, Fast and Slow
Last night, I finished reading Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman. The book is intended to reveal many of our cognitive shortcomings and show that our intuitions can often be incorrect even when they initially appear correct. Kahneman illustrates … Continue reading
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Tagged biases, Daniel Kahneman, emotions, errors, intuition, irrationality, Jonathan Haidt, reason, Review of Thinking Fast and Slow, System 1, System 2, The Righteous Mind, thinking, Thinking Fast and Slow, thoughts
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Knowing What the Future Holds
Few things are as strange to me as when someone says “that’s just the way it is, and that’s the way it’ll always be”. Things may be a certain way now, but who says they have to be this way, … Continue reading
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Tagged Daniel Kahneman, emotion, intuition, Jonathan Haidt, Knowing What the Future Holds, reason, The Righteous Mind, Thinking Fast and Slow
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Civil Discussions
Before last year, I considered myself to be a pretty reasonable person. Since then, however, I’ve realized that I can be just as emotional, unreasonable, and ideological as the next person. I’ve engaged in a lot of hostile exchanges over the … Continue reading
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Tagged arguments, Civil Discussions, conversations, discussions, emotion, hostility, ideology, reason, sense of self, solve problems
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Free Will
Before this year, I had never given much thought to free will. I thought that humans have free will but was never a major point of interest for me. This year, however, I’ve spent a lot of time reading about … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Duhigg, cyclical time, Eckhart Tolle, ego, emotion, free will, habit, influence, influences, Jonathan Haidt, Neil Howe, patterns, persuasion, Pre-Suasion, Presence, reason, Robert Cialdini, The Fourth Turning, The Power of Habit, The Power of Now, The Righteous Mind, William Strauss
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