Choosing Emotions: Thinking with Your Head and Acting with Your Heart - Softcover

Johnston, D. Earl

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798218843861

Publisher: Western Gold Publishing, 2025

Synopsis

“Why do people act that way? How can I feel better?”
Understand you. Better. Start with putting words to your emotions.

Most people have words for only a fraction of what they really feel.
So they react instead of respond.
They manage instead of master.
This book gives you the specific words and phrases to change that.

Choosing Emotions is the most comprehensive consumer reference on emotions in the English language.

Endorsed by physicians, CEOs, Emmy-winning filmmakers, judges, and elite athletes, Choosing Emotions unites 272 emotions and 8,000+ insights from peak performers, artists, scientists, and philosophers who share their own experiences and help navigating the range of emotions.

D. Earl Johnston is a multi-field researcher and lexicographer. He spent nine years investigating new theory about emotions, distilling wisdom books through the latest news in health and science on emotions, and drawing insights from world-class voices in psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, and literature.

Here you will discover:

• The Operating System you didn't know you had — how emotions help you navigate every reaction, decision, and relationship in your life
• 272 everyday emotional states decoded - using real-world language and inner dialogue to get you oriented and moving forward in minutes
• The Gears of Life — how matching the right emotional response to the situation prevents costly self-sabotage in careers and relationships
• Words building confidence — how the adequacy of your emotional vocabulary directly determines the quality of your experiences
• How you can change your emotions - the Awareness-Belief-Repetition technique that deeply influences your subconscious and improves your 'default' emotional responses
• Your "Who's Who" Support Team — why drawing on a curated body of 1,800 deeply experienced voices across 2,500 years produces more reliable insights
• "Name it to tame it." — the clinically validated principle that having the words to name a specific emotion restores your control of both challenges and opportunities

The APA Dictionary of Psychology and the Oxford Dictionary of Psychology each omit more than 25% of the 272 emotional states mapped in this book.
This gap has been where most of us live - without the words, phrases, and tools to succeed. Until now.

Choosing Emotions is the most comprehensive consumer reference on emotions in the English language - from Anxiety to Depression to Empathy to Patience to Zeal.

Buy it now in Kindle, paperback, or hardback and start winning the long game — with both your head and your heart.

About this title

About the Author

D. Earl Johnston is a former business executive and world champion sailor with deep interests in emotions and motivation.His career experiences include as a professional researcher retained by elite national-scope law firms to assist in complex high-stakes legal cases.

Edition details

• Publisher: Western Gold Publishing
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798218843861
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 376
• Editor: Higgins PhD Paul