Blindly following your emotions

Emotions, thoughts, and memories may give us useful information, but they are also likely to be unhelpful, inaccurate, or misleading.

For example, when you hear a rattling noise while out hiking, your fear may make you proceed more cautiously. However, fear of your coworkers who think ...

• Emotionally attuned to others - They can sense any change, show sincere empathy, and offer support or guidance.
• Self-awareness - They are able to see how their unintentional actions or words might have been perceived by others. So they make an effort...

Ignoring feelings (like "stuffing your anger") is not the healthiest way to deal with them. generally speaking, that does not make them go away but can cause them to come out in different ways. That’s because your emotions act as signals to you that what you are doing in your life is or isn’t wor...