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4 PLAYING LIFE TO YOUR ADVANTAGE

Emotions

So far, we have started identifying who we are and why we are here. We then looked

at how to embrace the dark side that is hidden within each of us and bring it into the

light so that it's manageable So that we can be aware. So that we have self-awareness

and can see the whole picture: the good, the bad, and the ugly.

Once we start wrapping our heads around these parts about personality the next thing

that we can start doing is looking at how to talk to ourselves and also how to manage

our emotions.

Wouldn't it be nice if we could all just switch off our emotions? Become psychopaths?

and then just achieve success in life? All of pop culture would suggest that psychopaths

are highly successful people that get whatever they want because they just don't care

about anyone except for themselves and they'll do anything to get what they want.

The thing is our emotions are there for a reason.

Our emotions are there to tell us important messages and if we're not listening to our

emotions and listening to the messages that they are telling us we are putting

ourselves at risk. When you look around you at society at large what you may notice

is that there are a lot of people out there who have a Friday night knockoff. There are

a lot of people out there who have interesting or dangerous ways of dealing with their

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