The Importance of Hope

Antonio D'Amazio argues that the feeling brain develops its own type of value-laden knowledge. The thinking brain makes associations among facts, data and observations. Similarly, the feeling brain makes value judgments based on those facts, data, and observations. This is the real problem of hope. It's rare that we don't understand intellectually how to cut back on carbs or wake up earlier. But somewhere inside our feeling brain, we have decided that we don’t deserve to do those things.