“...our essential process for making a decision still relies on emotion.”
Source: Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence
“I am convinced of that after spending almost all my adult and professional years in a fierce fight between my brain (not Fooled by Randomness) and my emotions (completely Fooled by Randomness) in which the only success I’ve had is in going around my emotions rather than rationalizing them.”
Source: Fooled By Randomness & The Black Swan: Two Books In One
“Dr. Stern’s explanation of how to identify this kind of covert emotional control and abuse, and how to resist it, is a very important tool for young women in particular to use, if they wish to safeguard their emotional well-being, resist others’ efforts to control and manipulate them, and choose relationships that support and nurture their development.”
Source: The Gaslight Effect: How to Spot and Survive the Hidden Manipulation Others Use to Control Your Life
“It is not to be without emotion or feeling but to be one in whom feeling is not sticky or blocked.” It is not to deny or bury or go around your feelings or your thoughts about those feelings. It is to feel them, acknowledge them, and work with them—to understand what they are trying to tell you about you, about the situation—to let them show you where there is more work to be done without letting them overwhelm, unbalance, or trap you. They have information for you. Take the information, say thank you, and keep going.”
Source: Be Water, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee
“If you are ready to accept things as they are, you will receive them as old friends, even though you appreciate them with new feeling.”
Source: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
“The vast majority of people are each a puppet that is forever pulled in this or that direction, or pushed into this or that action, by things such as public opinion and an emotion.”
“Because our approvals and disapprovals are thus recognitions of objective value or responses to an objective order, therefore emotional states can be in harmony with reason (when we feel liking for what ought to be approved) or out of harmony with reason (when we perceive that liking is due but we cannot feel it). No emotion is, in itself, a judgment: in that sense all emotions and sentiments are alogical. But they can be reasonable or unreasonable as they conform to Reason or fail to conform. The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it.”
Source: The Abolition of Man & The Great Divorce
“The less we choose to need, and the less we rely on comfortable, favorable circumstances for peace of mind, the more control we have over our thoughts, emotions, and behavior. “Pain is the purifier,” he taught. “Walk towards suffering. Love suffering. Embrace it.”
Source: The Comeback Quotient: A Get-Real Guide to Building Mental Fitness in Sport and Life
“When we bury the X, we uncover complexity and recognize the need for responsibility.
Be brave.”
“If you look at human thinking in terms of determinism, then you could say that the human mind is an algorithm, no different than a computer. But in my personal thinking, there are two profound differences: a computer algorithm is not curious, and a computer algorithm doesn't feel.”
Source: The Analog Sea Review: Number Two