Perception

Life is a melee of emotions and problems.

The secret to effectively handling each problem is to react with the right emotion and to the right intensity.

Abraham Maslow once said: "To the man who only has a hammer in the toolkit, every problem looks like a nail."

It is estimated that there are over 1,000 emotions that we can experience.

However, most of us only feel a handful of these on a habitual basis.

There is great wisdom in the rule that states that if you are in the right emotional state, the best solution to every problem will present itself to you.

Take some time to think of the emotions you feel consistently. Are there some that you have not felt in a long time? Are there some that you have not felt at all? If so, experience them for real.

The reason why human beings are so much more developed than animals is due to our ability to think rationally. The process of rational thought is nothing more than justifying whether we have attached the correct emotion to a certain stimulus, either on a personal or a social level. It therefore follows that to live rationally, one must implement this and react with the right emotion, to the right intensity and at the right time. To say this is easy. To do it is difficult.