In today’s post I’m riffing on Emotional Equations, please comment/message/tweet with your own additions and I’ll add them to the lexicon!
Also, what is your favourite one?
What is an Emotional Equation to begin with then?
On December 28th 2017 I started writing about Emotional Equations, writing about Chip Conley and how he coined the expression in his 2012 book.
As an aside, I am SO grateful his book inspired me right then, as it led to us meeting at the Modern Elder Academy in Baja a few months later !. In fact, in one session there we talked as a group about Emotional Equations and that is part of what inspired this riff today.
In that first blog I wrote about :
Despair = Suffering – Meaning
then added a few more from the book
Authenticity = Self-Awareness x Courage
Curiosity = Wonder x Awe
Joy = Love – Fear
Anxiety = Uncertainty x Powerlessness
In future posts (search on Emotional Equations on the search bar at the top of the page), adding (follow links to blog posts on each one) :
Trustworthiness = (Credibility + Reliability + Intimacy) / Self-Orientation
Hope = Connection x Opportunity
For today, two for you.
First, inspired by my friend and colleague Shauna Grillo, who told me that, though I have learned I bring the three qualities of Insight, Belief and Bravery to clients through my work, that really Bravery is the outcome of the first two, so :
Bravery = Insights + Belief
Finally for today, from a recent blog inspired by my stay in Baja :
This last one is a fun play on emotions and logic, do follow the link to the blog to get the philosophical joke!
