Emotional

How Feelings Shape Our Thinking

By: Leonard Mlodinow

Narrated by: Dan John Miller

We’ve all been told that thinking rationally is the key to success. But at the cutting edge of science, researchers are discovering that feeling is every bit as important as thinking.

You make hundreds of decisions every day, from what to eat for breakfast to how you should invest, and not one of those decisions would be possible without emotion. It has long been said that thinking and feeling are separate and opposing forces in our behavior. But as Leonard Mlodinow, the best-selling author of Subliminal, tells us, extraordinary advances in psychology and neuroscience have proven that emotions are as critical to our well-being as thinking.

How can you connect better with others? How can you make sense of your frustration, fear, and anxiety? What can you do to live a happier life? The answers lie in understanding your emotions. Journeying from the labs of pioneering scientists to real-world scenarios that have flirted with disaster, Mlodinow shows us how our emotions can help, why they sometimes hurt, and what we can learn in both instances.

Using deep insights into our evolution and biology, Mlodinow gives us the tools to understand our emotions better and to maximize their benefits. Told with his characteristic clarity and fascinating stories, Emotional explores the new science of feelings and offers us an essential guide to making the most of one of nature’s greatest gifts.

*Includes a downloadable PDF of emotional profile questionnaires from the book

Great book

Very important and well written book! I loved the core affect discussion and some questionnaires present in this book.

loved it

what an amazing story great way to look at life. very inspiring. I couldn't put it down.

Bang! Crack! Watershed science delivered-Audiophi

Fearlessly defining life as that which "takes action to avoid destruction." Cleanly bringing the Reticular to the prominence other book producer's have missed. Redefining Emotion while encompassing the newest science. If Leo Mlodinow is to be believed, and I believe him and science, Core Affect, Core Affect left out of the last 100 Neuro science books is the most significant predictor of our behaver. Leo is a Swashbuckler! This is the cutting edge book for Science Audiophiles of the BRAIN. We can't know it, if insightful talented guys miss a turn. Leo doesn't miss. This is one of those conceptions that takes a while for BRAIN self to accept. There is more new science for the science audiophiles in this neat audiobook.

read twice!!!

Great book!! I read twice. it explain clearly about your behavior towards the people under the situation. it explain the core affect and many others.

good insights

this book has good insights and I believe it is worth the second read. I was a little disappointed of the author's critique of the emotional intelligence book but perhaps there have been research findings over the past 20 years that further refine the emotional mechanisms presented in emotional intelligence.