About the book

We are often told that emotion gets in the way of clear thinking — that the aim is to feel less and reason more. This book takes the opposite view: our emotions are how we work out what matters. They are not the noise in the mind; they are a large part of how the mind works.

That has everyday consequences. It helps make sense of why change is so hard, even when we want it badly. It helps explain why we can feel scattered, anxious, or numb in a world that asks us to take in far more information than we are built for. And it suggests that the difficulty is not a personal failing — our minds are doing what they have always done; it is the world around them that has changed.

Animaception is written in plain language for the general reader. It follows these ideas through ordinary experience — learning, worry, memory, getting stuck, and finding a way through — without assuming any background in psychology.

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