The Power of the Herd Quotes

“USE EMOTIONS AS INFORMATION. Horses use emotion as information to engage surprisingly agile responses to environmental stimuli and relationship challenges:

(a) Feel the emotion in its purest form
(b) Get the message behind the emotion
(c) Change something in response to the message
(d) Go back to grazing. In other words, let the emotion go, and either get back on task or relax, so you can enjoy life fully. Horses don’t hang on to the story, endlessly ruminating over the details of uncomfortable situations

-- from an October 30, 2013 article on the Intelligent Optimist magazine”
― Linda Kohanov, The Power of the Herd: A Nonpredatory Approach to Social Intelligence, Leadership, and Innovation

“As Jay Griffiths observes in her book Wild, René Descartes and the rationalists of the late-seventeenth and eighteenth centuries cultivated “a hatred of ‘enthusiasm,’ for its emotional, wild surges of knowing were too natural, too bodily, too animal. Rationalism demanded superiority to, and separation from, nature and nature’s ways of knowing.”
― Linda Kohanov, The Power of the Herd: A Nonpredatory Approach to Social Intelligence, Leadership, and Innovation