After being in a week's process with fifteen leadership consultants to develop concepts and ideas, I'm quite at my leisure. Not that it hasn't been a good monster meeting; it's been surprisingly rewarding. I just miss my time. Which includes googling and pottering.
Spending some time with my good friend, who I have neglected all week, Miss MacBook Pro, I can finally google things like "happy being unhappy and why we like negative feelings". I always thought the reason for negative feelings were to feed our motivation to change. To do something new, to move on. Now, there seems to be research indicating that in our unhappy moments, we are actually quite happy. We have the ability to experience positive and negative affect at the samt time. Is this an explanation why we sometimes expose ourselves to situations where we know unhappiness and discomfort will occur?
Human beings are complicated.
Spending some time with my good friend, who I have neglected all week, Miss MacBook Pro, I can finally google things like "happy being unhappy and why we like negative feelings". I always thought the reason for negative feelings were to feed our motivation to change. To do something new, to move on. Now, there seems to be research indicating that in our unhappy moments, we are actually quite happy. We have the ability to experience positive and negative affect at the samt time. Is this an explanation why we sometimes expose ourselves to situations where we know unhappiness and discomfort will occur?
Human beings are complicated.
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