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Emotions are Vital Aspects of Thinking, Acting, and Working<\/span><\/h4>\n

People once believed that emotions were the opposite of rationality, or that they were lower than or inferior to our allegedly logical processes. But decades of research on emotions and the brain have overturned those outdated beliefs, and we understand now that emotions are indispensable parts of rationality, logic, and consciousness itself. In fact, emotions contain their own internal logic, and they help us orient ourselves successfully within our social environments. Emotions help us attach meaning to data, they help us understand ourselves and others, and they help us identify problems and opportunities. Emotions don\u2019t <\/span>get in the way<\/span><\/i> of rationality; they <\/span>lead<\/span><\/i> the way, because they\u2019re vital to everything we think and everything we do. Emotions aren\u2019t the problem; they\u2019re <\/span>pointing<\/span><\/i> to the problem, and they\u2019re trying to bring us the precise intelligence and energy we need to deal with the problem.<\/span><\/p>\n

In [<\/span>The Power of Emotions at Work]<\/a>, we\u2019ll learn how to listen to emotions as uniquely intelligent carriers of information, and how to build healthy and effective social and emotional environments at work \u2013 not by ignoring or silencing emotions (you can\u2019t), but by listening to them closely, learning their language, and creating a communal set of emotional skills that everyone can rely on. This work is not difficult at all, but it can be unusual in an environment that wrongly treats emotions as soft, irrational, or unprofessional.<\/span><\/p>\n

The serious problems we\u2019ve baked into the workplace don\u2019t come from any specific management style or ideology, so I won\u2019t focus on managers or leaders as if they\u2019re uniquely powerful or uniquely to blame. These problems also aren\u2019t limited to specific occupations or income brackets (though low-wage work is regularly dehumanizing and hazardous); these are long-term, widespread problems based on a failed workplace model \u2013 and on an outdated social and emotional approach that does not support (or in many cases, even comprehend) human relationships and human needs.<\/span><\/p>\n

This book is the result of decades of exploration and study into how the workplace got to be so unworkable, plus decades of experience in how to access the existing genius in people\u2019s emotional responses (in surprisingly simple ways once you understand how emotions and empathy work). With the help of the genius in our emotions, we can create emotionally well-regulated and worthwhile places for all of us to earn our living and spend our lives.<\/span><\/p>\n

Luckily, we don\u2019t have to do anything special to welcome emotions into the workplace, or even to make room for them, because emotions are and always have been in the workplace. They\u2019re in the responses people have to workplace abuses; they\u2019re in disengaged workers; they\u2019re in workers seeking other jobs while on the job; they\u2019re in workers who rightly avoid communicating upward about serious problems; they\u2019re in low-wage workers who learn how to survive in hellscapes like call centers, fast-food restaurants, gig work, and robot-like warehouse jobs; they\u2019re in living-wage workers who tolerate unhealthy workplaces because they can\u2019t afford to leave their health insurance behind; and they\u2019re in high-wage workers who may have to bow down to their superiors and compete with their colleagues to be seen as \u201cwinners\u201d \u2013 and whose experiences of workplace abuse may not be taken seriously because they make so much money and therefore have no right to complain.<\/span><\/p>\n

We can also see the emotions in our responses to workplace successes; in our healthy working relationships; in the ways we gather together to solve problems; in the ways empathic workers and leaders empower everyone around them; in the ways our colleagues support us when we\u2019re struggling; in the ways businesses step up in times of loss; in the ways we create open communication and humane workflows; in the ways we teach each other; in the benefits, support, flexibility, and living wages we provide for our workers; in the honest sharing of business difficulties or financial losses; and in the laughter we share on great days and rotten days.<\/span><\/p>\n

Emotions are everywhere in the workplace because emotions are a central feature of human nature. They aren\u2019t removable, and in fact, trying to remove them is a huge part of what created the failed workplace model we have today. Emotions are crucial to everything we do and to every aspect of our work; therefore, we\u2019ll learn how to listen to emotions, work with them, and respect their intelligence. And in so doing, we\u2019ll build a better workplace \u2013 and a better world \u2013 from the ground up.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nKarla McLaren, M.Ed.<\/b>, is an award-winning author, social science researcher, and empathy innovator. Explore her books and audios on the power of emotion and creativity here<\/a>. <\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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\nThis is part of a Conscious Business series brought to you by The Inner MBA\u00ae. You can learn more about the program at Innermbaprogram.com<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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