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With sehnsucht, there is a sense of something that’s on the edge of conscious awareness. It can be like remembering that you’ve forgotten something, but without being able to remember exactly what it is that you have forgotten. Another version of sehnsucht is the feeling that a certain place or object holds within it some potential for a better life, without understanding explicitly how that improvement might take place. The transformation we seek through sehnsucht is in a sense something that’s already in our hands, if only we could realize how to activate it.
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This week on Stories of Emotional Granularity, I want to do something a little bit different, but something I’ve been meaning to get to ever since the first season of the podcast last spring. I want to share with you some of the resources I have used to identify some of the many emotions that I’ve listed on my web site and begun to describe here on the podcast.
Let’s celebrate the work of Lisa Feldman Barrett, Tiffany Watt Smith, Tim Lomas, and others who are articulating the many distinct emotions that cultures around the world work with.
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We are lucky to find happiness when we can, and the best we can do is appreciate moments of happiness while they last, because just as we do not have to power to compel true happiness to arrive through force of will, we cannot prevent happiness from fading away in time.
Perhaps the secret of happiness is that happiness is not something we can achieve. We can make happiness more probable by setting the groundwork for it to arrive, or we can make happiness less likely to occur, but the most we can hope for is to shift the odds in our favor. No matter what we do, happiness is never guaranteed.
Sometimes, happiness happens to happen, and sometimes it doesn’t happen. The difference is a matter of luck, of happenstance. Perhaps we will be happy. Perhaps we will not.
This episode features reflections on happiness by authors Michael Hofeld, Richard Currier, Michael Connolly, and Ethan Gallogly.
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This week, we will be talking about anxiety, because anxiety is real. Anxiety is equally as true as happiness. Anxiety is inescapable. Anxiety does not go away if we stop talking about it.
What’s more, in our time, anxiety is growing. It is spreading like the darkness of winter.
I can’t put it more simply than this: Something feels wrong.
Guests in this episode include anthropologist Richard Currier, an accountant named Laura, ayahuasca guide Jonathan Schwarz, entrepreneur Adam Baruh, and researcher Kristen Donnelly.
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In natural ecosystems, wildfires burn through a landscape, destroying much of what has grown up there, but in doing so, leave behind the nutrients and open space required for new, fresh growth to begin. The occasional disaster here and there enables the presence of an ecologically diversity, rather than the simplicity of a well-established ecology that is uniform as a result of its stability. Just so, feeling burned out can be a precursor to change, although it comes before the beauty of fresh green new growth.
This episode features reflections on burnout from Eric Christiansen, Eleni Poulous, and Miriam Bekkouche.
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Sadness is murky. It makes the mind unclear, unable to perceive positive emotions. It’s the feeling of wrongness that reinforces himself.
That sense of wrongness within sadness can develop into a feeling of being broken, as if there’s something malfunctioning in one’s self or in the world that is bringing sadness into existence. Feeling sad isn’t at all unusual, however. It’s a central part of the human experience.
Sharing their perspectives on sadness in this episode are psychologist Melissa Green, authors Karol Ruth Silverstein and Ian Williams, Extinction Rebellion activist Todd Saddler, and ayahuasca guide Jonathan Schwarz.
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In a new episode of the popular cable TV show And Just Like That, it’s proposed that “Men are dumb with feelings.” Is that true?
This podcast episode considers what we know about emotion and gender. What does the gender imbalance in this podcast’s guests suggest about the relationship between emotion and gender? Should I adjust the design to compensate, and restore gender balance? This episode explores the available research on the subject, focusing on some of the studies cited in a powerful chapter by Leslie R. Brody, Judith A. Hall, and Lynissa R. Stokes, in the 2018 fourth edition of The Handbook of Emotions, edited by Lisa Feldman Barrett, Michael Lewis, and Jeannette M. Haviland-Jones.
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Emotionally, having arrived feels like the proper ending to a story. Our arrival seems like a culmination of all our efforts so that all our problems are solved.
Of course, that’s not how life really works. Often, we find that the place we’ve arrived at isn’t what we expected it to be. It begins to feel more difficult to remain in that place, as new needs arise, and new problems have to be solved. Having arrived doesn’t preclude further journeys ahead. This episode features the insights of Regina Lark, Adam Baruh, and Savannah Hauk.
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The pleasure that people find in work doesn’t follow any kind of universal formula. There’s no recipe for arbejdsglaede that’s going to work for everyone, because different people have different kinds of work that requires different skills and different forms of dedication. Guests in this episode include Brandy Agerback, Eleni Poulos, John Pabon, and Ranelle Golden
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Flow isn’t static. Change is an essential aspect of what flow is. Water that just sits there doesn’t flow. It’s stagnant, and flow is about creativity, not stagnation. Flow simultaneously allows us to dive into creative process and to connect the ideas within our work to tangible patterns built through our physical senses.
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We give trust because we trust in trust. When people choose to trust each other, people actually tend to be more trustworthy as a result. On the other hand, the opposite is also true. Once people begin feel distrust in each other, they become more distant and wary of each other, making untrustworthy behavior more likely.
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Grieving for a dying friend or family member is difficult enough. How can we grieve for a dying planet? This planet explores the boundaries of the scale of human emotion with the planet-sized climate grief, featuring the voices of Betti Rooted Lionheart, Shannon Haskins, Eleni Populous, Ian Williams, John Pabon, and Todd Saddler.
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This episode explores the emotion of pride in the context of LGBTQ and disabled identities, with stories from authors Lee Wind, Savannah Hauk, and Karol Ruth Silverstein, along with a passage from Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.
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there are some emotions that have yet to be assigned particular words to enable us to communicate about them. We can feel emotions without having a name for them. We feel these things even as we struggle for ways to communicate them to others. These are emotions on the cusp of being known, aspects of our individual experiences even though they don’t yet have a socially-recognized label.
This space of emerging emotion was revealed to me recently by my daughter in reaction to an episode of the breakthrough television show The Last Of Us, a well-received series that’s was based on a groundbreaking video game. The Last Of Us was among the first video games to integrate game play within a compelling cinematic storyline.
The Last Of Us is basically a zombie story, but it wasn’t the specific narrative that captured my daughter’s attention so much as the artistry with which it was executed. She described her emotional reaction to the craft of the storytelling as a combination of joy and fury.
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Surrender is the opposite of strategy. Strategy is thoroughly infused with the presumption of control. Surrender abandons strategic plans for controlling the future and allows for something else to be in charge. In this episode, Josie Gibson, Sonja Kresojevic, Jonathan Schwarz, Daniel Gomez Seidel, and Regina Lark share stories of surrender
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What is love, if people can feel love for so many different things in so many different ways? How are all of these different kinds of love still love?
In this episode, we hear stories of love from Harker Jones, Ranelle Golden, Rebecca Rose Vassy, Nancy Perpall, Betti Rooted Lionheart, Kristen Donnelly, and Robin Hafitz.
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In this episode, Rebeca Arbona discusses the power in a name, and dadirri, the Ngangikurungkurr word for deep listening that comes as a result of patient, silent waiting, is explored by Jonas Altman, Betti Rooted Lionheart, Eric Christiansen, and Miriam Bekkouche.
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Defined literally, a mask is something designed for a person to wear over their face, covering the face itself with something else. A mask obscures the face of the person who wears it, but also reveals a personality of its own. So, to feel unmasked is to feel as if one performance of identity has been removed, making it possible for others to observe something of the self that had been hidden from view.
Of course, not all the masks people wear can be tied on with a piece of string. People wear figurative masks as well, making deliberate choices to present themselves in a manner that seems authentic, but doesn’t match what they’re feeling on the inside.
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Alyssa Kearney, Audrey Holocher, and Josie Gibson discuss their experiences of the emotion of yugen, an emotional concept that arose out of the art and philosophy of China and Japan.
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Generative AI models such as ChatGPT are celebrated as superior sentient beings when they produce bad imitations of basic human work. At the same time, complex human consciousness is dismissed as flat. What are the consequences of this lopsided cultural interpretation of technology, and what are the implications for the emotion of curiosity?
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