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Your emotions are data, not noise. Recording them creates the only dataset that reveals what your conscious reasoning consistently misses.
Strong feelings about an observation usually mean it touches something important.
Strong emotional responses to information often indicate manipulation, not importance. Your triggers are not a relevance filter — they are a vulnerability map.
Your emotions do not add random noise to perception — they warp it in predictable, measurable directions. Anxiety inflates threats. Euphoria shrinks risks. Anger manufactures certainty. Once you know the direction of the distortion, you can correct for it.
Your emotional state when you perceive something becomes part of what you perceive.
Naming what you feel in writing transforms a vague internal pressure into a manageable object. The act of labeling an emotion recruits prefrontal circuits that dampen the amygdala, turning an overwhelming force into data you can examine, track, and act on deliberately.
Changing a deeply held mental model is uncomfortable — expect and accept this.
Using specific emotional states as activation signals for pre-designed responses.
Your emotions create self-reinforcing cycles — anxiety begets more anxiety.