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.
Right on schedule, Razib just dropped a podcast interview with him. When people have a book come out, they make the rounds of podcasts, as they used to do with radio and TV shows. And bookstores, which I think still do that, at least for local authors.
Commenter Earl Wajenberg has a book just about to come out, but I don't have a podcast to bring him on. Maybe we can find one. We'll keep you posted.
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