😸 So silly . . . You are projecting. Men like to cling to the belief they are rational, all the time being run like a puppet on a string by the emotions they have repressed. Knowing how to access your emotions and use them as information is by far the more rational way to behave. Most men are totally and completely at the mercy of their emotions from behind the wall of the subconscious. That’s why men are so much more likely to lash out in irrational ways — something I encounter every single day from guys and only rarely from women.

No, Repressing Emotions Doesn’t Make You “Logical”

There’s really no such thing as a thought that doesn’t have an emotion attached to it or that doesn’t have an emotion that follows it. (emphasis mine) When we take in the world around us, we have an emotional reaction to that appraisal. That emotional reaction changes the way we think in the next moment and cumulatively, over time.

Emotions are like the rudder that steers the ship because they push cognition into various modes. This means that you’re more likely to think of things in particular ways, depending on the emotion you’re having. All thinking is inherently emotional and cognitive, all at once. It’s literally neurobiologically impossible to remember or think deeply about anything that you haven’t felt emotion about. It just doesn’t happen because it would be a waste of the brain’s resources to think a lot about stuff that doesn’t matter.

Emotions Are the Rudder That Steers Thinking