The premise of the story is that your emotions give you a lot of information that can be used in conjunction with your thoughts in order to make good decisions. We over-value thoughts in this country and consider feelings to be weak, which is why men are taught to suppress them. I completely agree that both are needed and that they are inexorably intertwined.

I thought I made that abundantly clear. If you do not understand it, I’m not really sure what I can say to make it more accessible.

“In the West, we have been taught to value science, rational thought, the concrete, and the tangible. Intelligence, as can be measured in the brain by something like an IQ test, is highly valued and prized, despite the fact that many people who are very intelligent in that way are rather dysfunctional in other ways. Conversely, emotion is often seen as weak, murky and apt to be misleading. Learning how to shut down your emotions is often considered to be a valuable skill, but it’s actually quite counter-productive. Our emotions convey a huge amount of information to us and learning how to receive and use that information is a much smarter idea than trying to dispense with emotions entirely.”