You’re Only as Smart as Your Emotions, David Brooks

the revolution in our understanding of emotion

For thousands of years, it was common in Western thought to imagine that there was an eternal war between reason and our emotions. … Modern neuroscience has delivered a body blow to this way of thinking…. Most of the time emotions guide reason and make us more rational. It’s an exaggeration, but maybe a forgivable one, to say that this is a turnabout to rival the Copernican Revolution in astronomy.(Posted in Rationality) [Read More]