Linkton presents i rufus griscom. Do your emotions make you smart? Great, then you're ready to playme emotion. This is a clip from a two thousand 15 episode of sesame street. The average sesaby street viewer is three years old. We are highly sensitive emotional beings, for better and for worse. Yet almost as soon as we learn to identify our feelings, we're told we need to learn to manage them lest they get the best of us or cloud our judgment. But what if our emotions aren't a problem to be solved? What if they exist to help us solve problems? That's the striking conclusion scientists have come to in the last decade