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Wow

very foucault I like it

Das ist so heftig viel Input auf einmal, ich brauche immer richtig viel Pause zwischendurch 😭😂

DNF. I will revisit this book, just not right now.

Kann man sehr gut beim Putzen hören :)

While it's a pop-science book aimed at a normie crowd with no prior knowledge of psychology, a lot of the concepts explained by Barrett are drawn out to the point of the casual reader getting lost along the way.
Many points could have been made shorter and more concise. After a certain point, the book turns into a yapfest.
That being said, I enjoyed the majority of the analogies used by Barrett in the book.

The relationship between emotions and illness (both mental and physical) is not surprising to me by far (as I have been reading Dr. Barrett's research for a while now). What surprised me in this chapter is the idea with autism as a constant failure in prediction and lack of categorization system. Another interesting idea is the vicious connection between emotions and chronic vs. acute pain.

I'm frustrated. The author continuously implies that not having a name for something means you have no concept of it, providing the Utku people as an example of people without anger. The first result of a Google search shows they describe anger based on actions they view as childish. Which still means they clearly have a concept of it! The prior page has non-english emotions I recognize because I have felt them.

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Hab ich gestern als Hörbuch auf Spotify angefangen (auf Empfehlung von der guten Marliesjohanna auf Instagram 👀)
Bin sehr gespannt und hoffe, dass das noch lange genug gratis bleibt 😅

Letto fino al capitolo 8

Really matching with what I was looking for at the moment.

eg er snart ferdig med denne boka og det er eigentleg veldig trist fordi eg elskar ho

Everyone needs to read this ASAP I’m so serious

Every day in America, thousands of people appear before a jury of their peers and hope they will be judged fairly, when in reality they are judged by human brains that always perceive the world from a self-interested point of view.

im 5% in and this book is making me reflect sm. like never have i ever realized emotions were THAT stereotyped but when i think of it it’s kind of obvious too.

Definitely a hard read so far, with complex neurological concepts. On the other hand, the book unveiled insightful findings that made me reconsider my own emotions and how little do I know of my own emotional consciousness.

På side 65 kalla denne boka meg autist.

“Social reality is not just about words — it gets under your skin.”

Interesting book, although I still think that I wouldn't be reading it if it wasn't because they chose it at my newly joined reading club.

I enjoy particularly all the little anecdotes of how different emotions are in different cultures. It's truly amazing how many words exist in so many languages that cannot be translated into English and still they describe very precise feelings.

35 pages in and I’m already over all the analogies. At this rate they almost feel condescending - as if the concepts would be too complicated to grasp otherwise. Overall redundant.

Cuantas emociones en este libro en distintos países.

Ya casi a la mitad del libro del club 🥰

This chapter elaborates on how concepts are formed in our brain from the moment we are born and how new concepts continues to be formed through our brain's ability to adapt and learn-from past and present experiences. It explains the mental processes such as statistical learning, coneptual combination etc that we use to form concepts from an early age. Emotional granularity can point out your emotional intelligence.

The fourth chapter of How Emotions Are Made builds on key ideas like concepts, simulations, and predictions. It explains how the brain makes sense of the world through a loop of prediction, comparison, and error correction. Introducing "interoception," the brain's ability to sense internal bodily states, the author shows how it creates affect, influencing every choice we make. No decision is fully rational.

The third chapter of this book focuses on laying out case studies that has disproven method of recognising emotions called basic emotion. What we(Western culture) identify as anger(an emotion) through loud yelling, pouding fist etc may be taken simply as actions by people in different cultures. Emotions or emotional experiences are created by us- our culture, context,not our brains ,there is no biological fingerprint

I’m very dramatic this book is fine

This book is going to get a whole lot worse before it gets better

Book debunks most of the classical views around how how emotions are formed in our brain ,why they are formed and how its been expressed by us through our actions and how we give meaning to our actions based on emotions that are generated by our brain, more often than not it turns out actions are not a direct result of our emotions but an indirect result- its primarily based on perceptions- or concepts.