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Emotionl

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Mindlow

This was a good book to help me reason more clearly about emotions; particularly about thinking about executive control network and the emotional salience network that are both signals but can also be maintained by the executive control. I also liked taking the tests for the emotional profile. Apparently, I'm average on love, lo on happiness, anger, argumentativeness and high on anxiety, shame and guilt.

• An emotion is a functional state of mind that puts your brain in a particular mode of operation that adjusts your goals, directs your attention.
• Happiness encourges pushing limits, taking more risks; longer life
• Determination is also an emotion; can actually be influenced by electrodes
• Improving happiness
  • time to family & friends
  • express gratitude
  • be kind
  • cultivate optimism for the future
  • live in the present
  • exercise daily
  • commit to lifelong goals
• the executive network exert influence on the emotional salience network
• "affect labeling" talking or writing about your feelings
  • writing/talking about emotions gives relief
• emotion allows us to have flexible responses

— Kunal