Daniel Pink
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All right.
So, so I could get, I could say, we could say, we could bring in like, you know, some neuroscientists down the road at MIT and say, we're going to give you a magic pill and it's going to extinguish your ability to feel grief.
Would you want that?
I don't think you would.
I don't think you would because grief feels terrible.
Grief is a terrible emotion, right?
It makes you feel bad.
But it's there because it reminds us that we love and why we love.
Let's take fear, another negative emotion.
I don't like being scared, but you know what?
I don't want that MIT magic pill.
Say, oh, take this pill.
You'll never feel fear the rest of your life.
You know what's going to happen?
I'm going to be in a burning building and everyone else is going to get out because I'm not scared.
These negative emotions are there for a reason.
They're adaptive.
They helped us evolve.
Now, you don't want a lot of negative emotions.
No.