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Welcome to part two of our episode on Emotional Agility.

Number eight, what's the good news about bad moods?

Oh, I like this one. I like this one because we all try so hard to avoid bad moods.

So Susan says bad moods help us form arguments, improve memory, encourage perseverance, make us more polite

and attentive, encourage generosity, and make us less prone to confirmation bias. Just a quick

side note to explain that. I think we've spoken about this before, especially in thinking bias.

Confirmation bias is when we hold a belief

and just kind of nitpick or selectively pick the information that supports that belief.

I remember that episode. Do you know how I remember it? Because you were there.

Well, that's not always a guarantee because you forgot to hit record.

Oh, woof. And we forgot to hit record. Oh.

And we had to do it over again.

That's my bad.

And Susan says, our raw feelings can teach us things about ourselves and can prompt insights

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