If you say that you don’t allow emotions to influence your thinking, you’re actually saying that you have absolutely no awareness of all the ways your emotions influence your thinking
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This is completely untrue. Emotions determine what we pay attention to, by sorting out what's scary, important, interesting, sad, socially significant, etc. We think about things that are brought to the forefront of our mind by our feelings.
This is only partially true. Emotions are faster and we can rationalise our decision-making afterwards. But we can also deliberately or subconsciously think in a certain direction to conjure up emotions.
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What provides the initial motivation to do that, though? Without emotions we have pure apathy.
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