Emotions Are a Mechanism to Help Us Navigate the Future Not Just an Accounting System to Tabulate the Past

Some emotions seem to help us do difficult things. Emotions are a source, a huge source of motivation. So rather than see all emotions as the enemy of reaching our goals, you started to ask if some emotions could, in fact help us reach our goal. In the case of the student, it was the pride she felt being part of the teamnd not pride at the level of arrogance, humorous, but taking delight in a job well done,. that's exactly right....