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All decisions are emotional, not logical

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We make decisions in the emotional center of our brain. We use logic to try to figure out how we're going to feel. There's no such thing as a logical decision. That idea is like, I'm just going to be logical and just make a logical decision, it doesn't. Neurologically, it's just untrue.

Joe HudsonHow embracing your emotions will accelerate your career
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If you learn to fall in love with all of your emotions, then solution sets become available that you didn't have before. If you are like, 'Oh, I can't feel like a failure.' Well, then you're probably not going to take certain risks.

Joe HudsonHow embracing your emotions will accelerate your career
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Whatever emotion that you're trying to avoid, you are inviting into your life in exactly the way that you're trying to avoid it.

Joe HudsonHow embracing your emotions will accelerate your career
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90% of the time that we get distracted, it's not because of what's happening outside of us, but that most distraction begins from within boredom, loneliness, fatigue, uncertainty, anxiety.

Nir EyalStrategies for becoming less distractible and improving focus
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Procrastination is an emotion regulation problem. It's not a character flaw. There's nothing wrong with you, you're not broken. It's just that you don't have the tools to deal with emotional discomfort.

Nir EyalStrategies for becoming less distractible and improving focus