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#92 Lisa Feldman Barrett: Balancing the Brain Budget

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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You Have One Brain, You Don't Have Three Brains, You Have an Emotional Brain

There's no part of your brain devoted to emotion that isn't used also in moments when you are being rational. We tend to think about emotional moments as hot and intense, and rational moments as a cool and not intense. But that really just has more to do with how much affect you're feeling in that moment. There are times when affect is very, your feeling it very strongly,. Those moments where the brain would typically be making emotions....

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