12 Things Everyone Should Know About Their Emotions A guest post at N3 by Evolutionary Psychologist Rob Kurzban
8. Admiration is for learning.
Admiration feels like an emotion that’s directed at other people. And in some sense, it is. But admiration’s job is actually all about you. Humans everywhere face a crucial adaptive problem: They have to learn from other people to succeed wherever they find themselves, whether in the arid heat of a desert, the frozen winds of the tundra, or the city streets of Bangalore. A key part of solving that problem is figuring out who, specifically, to learn from. Admiration does this job, directing our attention to the people who have succeeded, so we can learn the secrets of their success.
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