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Chapter 10: Predict the Emotional Future Accurately: Improving Your Ability to Understand Emotions
What if you are not very good at understanding why people feel the way they do, or you have a hard time explaining how emotions change, blend, and transition? Understanding emotions is, in many ways, the easiest set of the four emotional skills to acquire. Understanding emotions represents our emotional knowledge base, and it includes an appreciation of the language used to describe emotions and other feelings. As we mentioned earlier, emotions have certain moves, just like in chess. And just like chess, emotional games can be played that vary in complexity from simplistic moves of individual pieces of a chessboard to games between grandmasters. Emotional grandmasters often are thinking several steps ahead and incorporating the entire emotional chessboard into their understanding of the game. This chapter will help you become a grandmaster of emotions. It will not happen overnight, but by improving your emotional knowledge base and understanding emotional rules, you can begin to play more masterfully than ever before. We’ll start at the beginning by building your emotional knowledge and providing you with a vocabulary boost so you can better explain just what people feel. Then we’ll help you predict the future—emotionally, that is.
