Tag: emotions
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So Deep and Serious
Hahaha. I wrote out the title, and for a quick second thought, “Do you have something constructive to say about this?” I’m not sure, but we shall soon see. I was somewhere – listening to someone play their music live – while everyone else around was eating lunch. (I know…
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The Thing that I Love About My Blog
…..is what I learn about you who read it. Whenever I check the sites stats, it shows the search terms that people used to find my blog, and it also shows the sites that they might have come from. Here are some of my observations. 1. People are struggling with…
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The Life of a Fictional Character
…..can sometimes become so real that you can actually experience that character as if they weren’t fictional. You can talk about them with your friends as if they were real. You actually know them like you know your neighbor. Now before you think that I’m out of my mind (and…
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Emotional Work
I heard that phrase today. A girl that I was listening to was talking about the guys that she dates and how she is more attracted to guys that have done their emotional work. It stood out to me. The first question that I asked was – what does that…
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Emotional Engineering
I don’t know what you picture when you think of an engineer, but I think math and socially….well, you know. Don’t get me wrong. I know tons of cool engineers, but that’s the focus of this post. I heard about the idea of emotional engineering and was quite fascinated by…
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Emotions and Blogging
I saw this tweet on Twitter from @TheBeanCast. Here’s the tweet: TheBeanCast Blogging is emotionally draining when you actually put effort in it. Should just start posting links and snarky comments like everyone else. Of course I retweeted it, but I wanted to blog it as well. Blogging is not…
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Emotionally Frozen 2
I wrote about this awhile ago – here‘s the post. I talk about how when someone is emotionally frozen that it is that thing that prevents identity formation from happening. It was an interesting idea when I wrote it, but I have checked my stats and there have been a…
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Emotionally Frozen
I read a lot. I love reading and learning. I have been doing a lot of writing lately – mostly dissertation and research writing. Today, I was reading something and came across this phrase, “emotionally frozen.” I can’t even explain it to you, but it just jumped off the page…
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Take the Emotion Out of It
Have you ever heard anyone say this – that somehow we should just “take the emotion out of it”? Have you said it? I had the opportunity to fill in for some classes this week. The students were working on their Philosophy of Education. They were working on developing this…