“But knowing was no match for emotion.”
Laurence Gonzales, Deep Survival, P.38
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We can have all the knowledge.
Read all the history.
But unless we can manage our emotions we might as well not have the knowledge.
Emotion is chemicals that can easily override clear thinking.
It’s in the training and practice of managing our emotional state that we learn to access the knowledge.
If we try to put a tent up in a gale we’d better not get angry at the wind.
Better to remember that a tent is tethered by its pegs.
Put some pegs in the ground.
Then you can carry on with the poles.
Soon you will be finished.
If you get angry at the wind, then your knowledge will be no match for your emotion.
You’ll be out there for a long time trying to put up your shelter with your unrealisable partner, emotion.
Take a deep breath.
Acknowledge the chemicals doing their work.
Then ignore them and get on with the task.
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