spending a lot of time trying to figure out this world. right. and the crucial part is what? is the crucial part relating to one another? say in the case of morality, we have a folk wisdom that we think through principles and come up with right or wrong but that s not actually how morality works. morality is more like taste. you instantaneously know whether something is fair. nobody needs to tell a 2-year-old what s fair or not. so when someone is not listening to us, when someone is disrespecting us, it s not a rational think we think this is wrong, it s a visceral and emotional reaction. so even in egypt in the tides we ve seen across the middle east, people feel emotionally insulted. when they rise up, they feel emotional pride. the emphasis is these are deep emotional responses. our emotions are not stupid. we think from freud that the unconscious is this tangled zone of sexual urges. it s not. it s trying to help us figure out the world. it s just doing it in a different way
unconscious is this tangled zone of sexual urges. it s not. it s trying to help us figure out the world. it s just doing it in a different way than our conscious processes. and in some way it s a much smarter way. if you have trouble making up your mind about a subject, flip a coin, tell yourself you re going to settle it by a coin flip. but then don t come up, don t decide on the basis of what the coin says. go on the basis of your emotional reaction to the coin flip. are you happy or sad it came up that way and that s your inner mind telling you what it really wants but hadn t told you till that point. i have a story that completely proves your point. i was applying to colleges from india when i was 18 years old. 8,000 miles away, had no idea what the differences between these colleges were. and i was choosing between two roughly similar colleges. and i did a coin toss. it came up for college b. i decided let s make it a best of three. it came out for college a, which is where i wa