Critical Feeling

"You're over-feeling this."

Similar to critical thinking, but with emotional content.

Most of our emotions are susceptible to becoming maladaptive and because the content is not analytic thoughts they are harder to access and harder to influence.

- Eric Weinstein on The Portal Ep. 6


If you're raising kids as I am, you need to teach "critical feeling" to defeat groupfeel no less than critical thinking to fight groupthink.

7:45 AM · Mar 21, 2017


Considering a riff on artificial emotional intelligence, machine feeling, R Conjugation, empathy superhighway, critical feeling & groupfeel.

8:26 AM · Mar 21, 2017


Talk about “Critical Feeling” to avoid moments like this where folks want to *feel* their way to an answer in Ukraine.

We’ve got to attack groupfeel head-on as a matter of survival in nuclear democracies w/ pollsters.

Our feel-good options are UNBELIEVABLY reckless.

From 2017:

9:11 PM · Mar 16, 2022

If you're raising kids as I am, you need to teach "critical feeling" to defeat groupfeel no less than critical thinking to fight groupthink.

7:45 AM · Mar 21, 2017

According to Jocko's philosophy, the Dichotomy of Leadership, we must remain aware of emotional balance and when to engage.


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