Reappraisal is an in-the-moment strategy we can use any time we are dealing with an undesired emotion. But in order to build a truly better mind, we are going to have to go a bit deeper to the core of emotional psychitecture. We don’t simply want to become aware of our harmful emotional reactions or change them as we are dealing with them. We want to remove them on a systematic level. We want to reprogram the cognitive algorithms which gave rise to them.
