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You have more control over your emotions than you think with Lisa Feldman Barrett

WorkLife with Adam Grant

CHAPTER

Exploring Emotional Granularity and Unique Emotion Words

In this chapter, they delve into the concept of emotional granularity and discuss their favorite emotion words from different languages, including a Japanese word for post-bad-haircut unpleasantness, a word for the feeling when seeing a cute baby, a German word for emotional overeating, and a Finnish word for the satisfaction of falling on a soft cushion. They also introduce their own invented emotion word, 'emotional flu,' to capture the sensation of feeling physically imbalanced.

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