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The Emotion/Feeling Discontinuity - Teddy Warner

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How to convince yourself into greatness.

Emotions can be defined as “guesses” about the future. They are your windows to the preconceived notions you hold about what has happened and what’s to come. You cannot see the world “as it is”. None of us can. You see the world as the story you tell about it. The worldview you hold may thus be described as a product of one’s input data, and the weights they apply to it. Emotions exist to help you make decisions (i.e. fight or flight). An emotion is: A Behavior A Process A Sensory System within the body (Interoception) And quite notably, emotions are distinct from feelings. A…

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