You hear it in the press and from ostensible experts all of the time – versions of “have no emotion”, “remove emotion”, or “emotion got in the way”.

What is so amazing about this is how they don’t notice that emotion is necessary for everything – perception, decision, action and of course, motivation. Somehow they think – well they really didn’t bother to think – that without emotion, basically everything is effectively nothing. You need confidence to move ahead, you need desire to get anything done, you need frustration to figure out a different solution to a challenge… and the list goes on.

What needs to happen is for the world to re-frame their view of emotion – completely and totally. Everyone needs to realize that emotions are only feelings – albeit feelings with information  – and that actions make things happen. Can we start saying “control your actions” while we start learning to use emotions as data?