Emotional Ignorance: Lost and found in the science of emotion

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Less than three months after his father's demise, Burnett encountered the more difficult aspects of being a caretaker. It goes on to examine how pleasure and pain tread a fine line (one reason, Burnett suggests, why 50 Shades Of Grey was so popular – and so badly written), in the process expelling various myths around BDSM practises. In this case it is singularly true because the reason for the derailment of the book originally envisaged has produced a different* and better book.

After losing his dad, a neuroscientist goes on a journey of discovery into where our emotions come from, what purpose they serve, and why they make us feel the way they do. In the account of Burnett’s father's demise because of COVID-19, he was advised to concentrate on the positive memories, but either way, it turned out to be painful and infused with a profound sense of loss. Emotions have always been about change, and because emotions happen throughout our brains, they have the capacity to affect us instantly. Understanding emotions and the broader role they play is crucial to an accurate and scientific understanding of how we think. After losing his dad to Covid-19, Dean Burnett found himself wondering what life would be like without them.

But in my world, I see the expression of emotion sometimes appears to be given an almost sacred and cathartic value representing an unquestioned truth, along the lines of, "if I feel it, it must be true". We learn that Burnett wrote this book right after his father passed away from COVID-19 during the early part of the pandemic in 2020.

Through this book we explore emotions from a range of aspects that I found intriguing, illuminating and thought provoking. I do feel mean for not giving this book a full 5 star rating, but I am putting the emotion to one side for the moment. Got a weird feeling that's it's author's therapy, a self-healing process of (re)connecting with semi-broken emotional-inner-workings, triggered by author's father passing. Het had dus een goed boek kunnen zijn over een interessant onderwerp als het op een toegankelijkere en duidelijkere manier was uitgewerkt.

Emotions' chemical reactions happen so fast in our brains that even current technology fails to accurately detect them. Combining expert analysis, brilliant humour and powerful insights into the grieving process, Dean uncovers how, far from holding us back, our emotions make us who we are. Ik heb van dit boek een leesexemplaar mogen lezen vanuit de boekhandel waar ik een bijbaan heb (de vertaalde Nederlandstalige variant: ‘Doe normaal!

It’s emotions that allow us to sort through the never ending stream of sensory input and retrospectively assign meaning and weight to individual memories. I’ve read all of Dean’s books so whilst the situation he wrote this one in (the death of his father from covid) was different, I felt like a lot of the info he’d already told me in another book.

Due to the pandemic, Burnett is unable to express his emotions to friends and family, which may affect their relationships.

Combining expert analysis, brilliant humour and powerful insights into our inner lives, Dean uncovers how, far from holding us back, our emotions make us who we are. I found myself dipping into chapters rather than reading through in novel-esque fashion; to that end, the segment I found hardest to swallow concerned emotional relationships. Degene die het boek vertaald heeft, maakte vaak spelfouten wat betreft woorden in enkelvoud/meervoud.From Nobel Laureates Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter to theatre greats Tom Stoppard and Alan Bennett to rising stars Polly Stenham and Florian Zeller, Faber Drama presents the very best theatre has to offer.