emotions

  • External Validation

    Does your happiness depend on what other people think? Read that again. Does it sound ridiculous? It should. But if you’re someone who constantly seeks approval, needs praise before you act, or measures your worth by how others respond to you, then congratulations. You’ve just outsourced your entire emotional wellbeing to people who probably aren’t…

  • The Affect Heuristic

    The last lesson talked about worry, and this feels like an ideal time to discuss the four big emotional drivers behind our worry and how these can affect our thinking more broadly. Because here’s the uncomfortable truth: your emotions are running the show far more than you’d like to admit. The four emotional drivers that…