Five Things You Need to Know About Emotions To Succeed

Five Things You Need To Know About Emotions To Succeed:

1. Emotions are like the color wheel: there are primary, secondary and tertiary emotions.

2. Primary emotions are the most important ones because they are our inherited tools for survival. Primary emotions are the ones that are the building blocks for all other emotions, and they are the ones that have adaptive instincts built into them.

3. Being in touch with primary emotions will help you make better choices (they are what intuition comes from). If you are out of touch with your primary emotions you run a bigger risk of making: tactical, ethical, relational and survival mistakes.

4. Primary emotions are first available to our awareness as physical sensations and each primary emotion has particular visceral expressions. Being in touch with your body (a right brain thing), and knowing what the general visceral of each primary emotion is (a left brain thing) is important for being present and able to successfully adapt in the face of new information.

5. Primary emotions give us massive amounts of information about ourselves and the world. If you are out of touch with your full range of primary emotions you are missing out on tons of information which puts you at a disadvantage.