id: 2154,1
title: Emotions are a simplified heuristic for navigating a complex world.
date: 2021-06-21

Emotions are a simplified heuristic for navigating a complex world.

Running every detail through analytical process would prevent us from making timely reactions, and would exhaust us. Emotions take distilled core values, compare a few key points to them, and quickly produce a response. Maybe not perfect, but generally better than a much delayed response. Needs therefore generate emotional responses. Emotions arise from the limbic system.rR1

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    David Rock, Your Brain at Work: Strategies for Overcoming Distraction, Regaining Focus, and Working Smarter All Day Long, 1st ed (New York: Harper Business, 2009). (See notes.)