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Getting Good at Bad Emotions with Amy Olberding

The London Lecture Series

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Managing Disappointment

The range of responses we can admit and voice is contracted. We are, to be sure, permitted reactions to others but these have a direction that carries us well away from disappointment. When we receive evidence of human failings with outrage, we are, of course, angry. In its most common form in our public discourse,. Outrage is characterized as a product of just minded attention to the unjust structure of the world. However, as a mode of response to human failing, outrage carries certain risks. This seems particularly the case where outrage is overviewed used ah, where it becomes a kind of social currency That, through overspending, loses its value or the value it might otherwise have.

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