The mistakes that you can make by being emotional are not inevitable, and they are not mistakes because of your emotion—a true emotion is true—they are mistakes because you didn’t say, “I can feel my heart racing—did this person just say what I thought they said, or am I misreading?” And so forth.
If your heart weren’t racing, you wouldn’t have needed to ask the question.
Meanwhile, “true emotion” is rhetoric: the feeling of fear as the hot poker approaches is not rational, unless blind struggling will get it away from your face… and mostly in modern life, it will not… which means you’re simply adding unnecessary insult to your imminent injury.
Do you somehow imagine that anything of consequence has ever been accomplished without the force of passion behind it?
Passion != anger. If it feels bad, you’re doing it wrong.
What I am discussing is not an instant trigger for unstoppable rage, but merely something which infuriates.
Doesn’t matter to my argument: at least a rage trigger is over relatively quickly, while being infuriated over a principle can ruin your life for days or weeks at a time. ;-)
Bad feelings feel bad for a reason: they are actually bad for you.
If your heart weren’t racing, you wouldn’t have needed to ask the question.
Meanwhile, “true emotion” is rhetoric: the feeling of fear as the hot poker approaches is not rational, unless blind struggling will get it away from your face… and mostly in modern life, it will not… which means you’re simply adding unnecessary insult to your imminent injury.
Passion != anger. If it feels bad, you’re doing it wrong.
Doesn’t matter to my argument: at least a rage trigger is over relatively quickly, while being infuriated over a principle can ruin your life for days or weeks at a time. ;-)
Bad feelings feel bad for a reason: they are actually bad for you.