Feelings? Stuffed your feelings? Traumatic childhood? Lost Ability to Feel or Express Emotion?

 So many of our feelings are stuffed. Unexpressed. Stifled by angry feelings you don't express. It takes a lot of energy to keep boundaries especially if you have had a traumatic childhood. Pushed your feelings to an exhaustion point. Do you avoid direct conflict? Do you withdraw? Evade problems. Has anyone ever called you passive-aggressive? If any of these apply, try identifying your feelings on a feeling wheel.  Here's one: University of Oregon's Feeling Wheel by Bret Stein, 2011.

You need to click on the U of Oregon's Feeling Wheel link above to see this fantastic image.  It is an awesome image. 

It will definitely help identify your feelings. 

Below is an image to distract you from identifying feelings. 

Simple Color-top from 1895 by Edward Wheeler Scripture, Wiki Commons. 

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c0/NEW_Wheel_enhanced.png

Bias. How to assess what is FACT or FICTION. Logical Fallacies and Eric Bean

Sophivorus, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

Eric Bean in his new book, Bias is All Around You: A Handbook for Inspecting Social Media & News Stories says:

 

"If you cannot properly assess information bias, it could:

1. Lead you to follow a false cause

2. Leave you feeling foolish

3. Tarnish your credibility

4. Attract the wrong people

5. Create undue stress

6. Compromise your values

7. Harm your mental health"

Are we biased? Have Social and News Stories based on our reasoning and logic?

Logic is about understanding what follows from something else. If p, then q. 

However, have we used the correct reasoning? Did we make the correct assumption or inference?

In logic parlance, from p to q. Logic takes us from the premise via inference, to a conclusion. However, often there are often logical fallacies, where a person is attacked, or correlation is not causation, or either-or thinking, distortion, overgeneralization, using a slippery slope, or a false analogy. Our own biases interrupt logical thinking. That is Confirmation Bias. Confirmation Bias is where we interpret and recall information that supports our own biases. 

How Confirmation Bias Works 

Common Logical Fallacies

More info about Erik Bean's book, Bias is All Around You

Listen to Hidden Brain's podcast on Thriving in the Face of Contradiction