“Feelings can control our perception.
Yet without feelings, we wouldn’t be interested in perceiving anything at all.
We do need feelings to direct and broaden our attention. But if the feelings are too strong they restrict and narrow our attention.
Without feelings people would be robots and that would not be too much fun. But unrestrained feelings and strong feelings are not much fun either.
Just as a coachman learns how to control a team of six horses so we need to learn how to ‘manage’ feelings so that we enjoy them and do not get carried away by them. If all the horses bolt, the carriage gets wrecked.”
—Edward de Bono.
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