EMOTIONAL: Do Your Feelings Make You Smarter?

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🗓️ 21 April 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

We all strive to think rationally. But it doesn’t always do us much good. Cutting-edge science has revealed that if we want to sharpen our thinking, we need to feel our feelings. That science is the subject of “Emotional,” a new book by theoretical physicist Leonard Mlodinow. In this episode, he sits down with science writer Annie Murphy Paul to discuss where emotions come from, how they motivate us, and what we can do to control them. Episode Recommendations: RATIONALITY: Steven Pinker’s Love Song to Critical Thinking FEELING & KNOWING: Unlocking the Secrets of Consciousness (with Antonio Damasio) EXTENDED MIND: Want to Get Smarter? Try Thinking Outside of Your Brain (with Annie Murphy Paul) Next Big Idea Club: Download our app today at https://nextbigideaclub.com/app/

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0:00.0	LinkedIn presents I'm Rufus Griskem and this is the next big idea.
0:10.0	Today, do your emotions make you smarter?
0:30.0	Do you know a lot about emotions and feelings?
0:34.0	Great! Then you're ready to play! Name! That emotion!
0:40.0	This is a clip from a 2015 episode of Sesame Street.
0:44.0	Bring in the first contestant!
0:46.0	Contestant? I'm not playing a game!
0:48.0	Seems to be a grouch.
0:50.0	Oh, let's see, Mr. Grouch. Can you tell us a little bit about how you're feeling?
0:55.0	I'm not telling you nothing.
0:57.0	Well, don't you want to play our game?
0:58.0	No, I don't want to play your game.
1:00.0	Seems like he's cranky.
1:02.0	And a little bit grumpy.
1:04.0	How do you think this grouch is feeling?
1:08.0	Grouchy? You think the grouch is grouchy?
1:12.0	Let's find out. Mr. Grouch, are you grouchy?
1:16.0	Of course I'm grouchy. I'm a grouch!
1:18.0	We did it! We made an emotion!
1:22.0	Thank you for playing, Mr. Grouch.
1:24.0	Now, this clip is silly, of course.
1:26.0	But it's also kind of remarkable.
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