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The Thinking Lab -All About Emotions #4: Getting to Know Yourself: Desire, Aversion, and the Need for Self-Direction - for Members
The Thinking Lab -All About Emotions #4: Getting to Know Yourself: Desire, Aversion, and the Need for Self-Direction - for MembersJuly 25, 2023 –
Topic: All About Emotions #4: Getting to Know Yourself: Desire, Aversion, and the Need for Self-Direction
The two basic emotions with "action impulses" associated with them are desire and aversion. Knowing how to introspect these two emotions is crucial to managing one's action through self-direction. We'll start this class with a quick review of self-direction, and then discuss:
- Variants of desire (longing, temptation, compulsion) and aversion (hatred, resistance, paralysis)
- What's easy about introspecting these emotions and what's not (hint: you need to go deeper)
- How taking seriously the need to manage action impulses dramatically accelerates your self-understanding
Bring a copy of the full handout for self-direction so we can discuss the course-correction loops.