Is understanding emotions the key to better Torah learning? 💭

So till 2016, I don't think I read a single educational book. I read novels, only novels. [music] In 2016, something switched. I don't know what it was. I picked up a book by accident, fell in love with it, wanted to know more. Do >> you remember what it was? >> Yep. It was called The Language of Emotions by Carla McLaren. She really had a great way of breaking down [music] every single emotion, what it's there for, the movement in the body. To this day, that book is very foundational. in one of the courses that I teach, vessel, which is on self-development. [music] The third module in Vessel is called the language of emotions, which is the name of her book. It's built on that. I mean, there's more hashkafa put [music] in because Torah also has different words for every emotion. Like there's like 17 words for anger because there's many different kinds of anger when they're used and what how they move through the body. You understand that not all anger is the same. Some is [music] healthy. There's an appropriate time to use the different kinds of anger. They have a different breath pattern. These things were fascinating to me.