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Our emotions are more elaborate than they are simple. Irrespective of the mechanisms by which they arrive or what names we give them when they do, the bottom line is, emotions are a pervasive hallmark of our experience. Their presence acts as a kind of invisible yet palpable navigation system guiding our response. But because we can't see them nor are we fully versed in their detection or intervention, they often elude our conscious awareness and therefore our inclination to recategorize or reframe them. That is where the 12 Self-Discoveries come into play. They provide us with quick methods to spot when our interpretation of them is or isn't helpful, pointing out common mental pitfalls we may be succumbing to and remedies for when we do. Our mental outlook and what unfolds within our mind's ecosystem have a profound impact on us, not just physically but psychologically. What's more, our emotions impact how we make decisions and predispose the course of action we're likely to take as a result of how we interpret them. Thus, our real-time investigation of our emotions and ability to reinterpret or change our perceptual stance relative to them matters as much as our conceptual and scientific understanding of them. How we experience our emotions, the ways in which they color our outlook, shape our outcomes, and impact our relationships for better or worse mirror back to us the working state of our own emotional intelligence.