So are you more of a rational person or an emotional person?

Which one is better?

Well, psychologists and it turns out Albert Einstein,

believe that true wisdom requires you to tap into both.

Hello and

every week I'll help you meet life's challenges with evidence-based research,

a sympathetic ear and zero judgment. Today on the show we discover how your wise mind

integrates emotion and reason and talk about how to activate wise Mind in your daily life.

One of my absolute favorite book series is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes series.

Mr Holmes, The Genius Detective Detective is one of the smartest people to appear on literature's

pages.

And I couldn't help but notice that he said this about emotions. He said,

Love is an emotional thing,

and whatever is emotional is opposed

to that true cold reason,

which I place above all things. This really caught my eye because, you know, I work with

emotions for a living. And another person, famously smart, is Mr. Spock, first officer on the Starship Enterprise,

and he had similar feelings towards feelings as. Holmes. He said,

may I say that I have not thoroughly enjoyed serving with humans.

I find their illogic and foolish emotions a constant irritant.

Hmm. So Holmes and Spock declared emotions as foolish, frivolous things that cloud judgment and mess up the quest for truth.

On the other hand, real life genius Albert Einstein took a kinder view of emotions.

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