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2393: How to Keep Emotions From Running Your Life by David Cain

Optimal Living Daily - Personal Development and Self-Improvement

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Avoiding Hangovers

We empower certain difficult emotions by trying to never feel them. Desperately avoiding the experience of embarrassment, for example, leads to habits of extreme shyness. The avoid at all cost strategy works against us when it comes to inevitable human feelings like uncertainty, awkwardness, fear and disappointment. None of us can live free from these feelings, no matter how badly we like to.

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