Tag: prediction

We don’t really know what’s going to happen next, and we haven’t obtained the kind of counsel required to face the uncertainty. We are prepared to be deposed.

The emotion of disappointment advises us to hope for less, and in doing so, makes us feel smaller in the present.

The future is always there, some physicists say. It is as real as the present, as material as the road a mile ahead of us, inaccessible to us in the moment, but a… more emotion Doom

Caprice is a reminder that we are more than our habits. We contain within us to become something more than what the algorithms of Facebook, Apple, Google, and Amazon can calculate.

Surprise is one of the six basic emotions proposed by psychologist Paul Ekman in the mid-20th century. Ekman claimed that these emotions were biologically universal to all human beings, and were, like chemical… more emotion Surprise

As we grow up to become members of civilization, we are urged to plan ahead. We’re told not to go out into the world when our bodies come of age, but to stay… more emotion Spontaneity

Being out of sorts isn’t really the same thing as feeling discombobulated or the emotion of ilinx. Ilinx refers to a specific feeling of exhilarated disorientation that comes from being spun around and… more emotion Out of Sorts