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EMOTIONAL: Do Your Feelings Make You Smarter?

The Next Big Idea

Is There a Separation Between Thinking and Feeling?

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Blannet: We tend to separate mental life, intellectual life, from emotions. And i felt like your book was a real, really strong statement saying that's not right and we know that's not correct. I wonder if you could talk about why it is, or how it came to be that weSeparated thinking from feeling? Blannet: It dates back at least to plato, a the ancient greeks, who thought that you have a rational mind for logical thought that makes good decisions. And then you have these drives and passions that you need to fulfil, but that overtake your reason sometimes.

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