Emotional Wisdom: How to Read, Understand, and Process Emotions

What are emotions? Why do they have such a powerful influence on your relationships, well-being, and work-life balance? How can recent scientific discoveries about emotions help you become a better person?

With a long evolutionary history, emotions are crucial to our survival. They are central to how we experience the world, establishing a background and foreground to our lives. Emotional wisdom can help us achieve greater health, happiness, success, and connection to those around us.

In this engaging 15-lecture audio course, you can explore the fascinating science of emotions with Vassar College’s Randolph (Randy) Cornelius. The author of The Science of Emotion: Research and Tradition in the Psychology of Emotion, Prof. Cornelius is an expert on the history of emotion research, conceptions of emotions in popular culture, and close relationships. The insights you’ll gain from this course will enrich your emotional intelligence. Each lecture begins with a true story involving emotions, many drawn from Prof. Cornelius’s personal experience. A semi-professional musician, surfer, and collage artist, Prof. Cornelius is a singularly inspiring guide to the series. Zooming out from the individual to the global scale, he offers hope that we can use what we know about emotions to cope positively with large-scale events in the world.

Learn how to be your best self today.

This course is part of the Learn25 collection.

© 2019 Learn25 (Lydbog): 9781632517906

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Lydbog: 1. august 2019