What is emotion management?
Emotion management is how you react when you get hit with strong emotions (e.g. how do you handle a sudden spike in anxiety?).
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We all tend to think that the tools we use are the main reason why we tend to be underproductive. However, this is far from the truth and in this article a psychological explanation is given with some interesting takes on emotions.
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