What's worth doing? (and other essential questions)
Kelly Corrigan Wonders
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The Pathologizing of Negative Emotions
We tend to reduce our emotions to are they positive or negative and how intense are they? You get this kind of single axis and then anything that moves you in the negative direction starts to look like sheer loss. Nobody thought in terms of positive and negative emotions until very recently in history. There's no sense in which the negative could be positive because you're thinking just in terms of negative and positive.
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