Emotional Granularity

Burnout is about becoming a wreck because of the very fury with which we once felt devoured by the task at hand.

People who feel shame often feel guilty, but shame is distinct from guilt. Whereas guilt is the feeling of having done a bad thing, shame is the emotion of being bad, as a… more emotion Shame

When the burdens of the road meet the other troubles of life, road rage erupts. Traveling in one-ton vehicles at a mile a minute, the consequences of this emotional break are often deadly.

Last year, as summer approached, I wrote about the emotion sometimes referred to as cave syndrome. It’s the feeling one gets, upon nearing the end of a troubling time, of reluctance to emerge… more emotion Resilience Fatigue

There’s a desperate urge to lash out in response to one’s descent, but how can it ever be made right?

Curiosity is an emotion we can access only when we are willing to admit that there are things that are worth knowing that we have no idea about.

The rapture of the deep is experienced when a diver lets go of fear, allowing gravity to do its work in a gentle manner, with the soft grip of water seeming to embrace and support every inch of the diver’s body.

Extraordinary places often come with their own extraordinary emotions. So it is with the highest mountain in the world, Mount Everest, the setting for what has become known as summit fever. The path… more emotion Summit Fever

Nihilism is a difficult thing to talk about, because most of the time, it’s nothing more than an insult that self-styled philosophers hurl at each other. Intellectually, nihilism is always on shifting sands…. more emotion Nihilistic

I can still remember what it was like when the Windows 95 operating system came out. I was a Mac user at the time, but Apple was regarded back then as a pathetic… more emotion Tantalized