September’s theme is the influence of emotions on decision making, encapsulated in the following:
‘99% of our decisions – including the most important life choices concerning spouses, careers and habitats – are made by the highly effective algorithms we call sensations, emotions and desires.’
YUVAL NOAH HARARI
‘In a normal business discussion, you are not supposed to allow your emotions to enter in. They enter in anyway – you merely disguise them as logic.’
EDWARD DE BONO
Weblink: MANAGING EMOTIONS – EQ4U
GRAMMAR/COMMUNICATION NOTES
Regretful – regretful and regretfully are sometimes wrongly used where regrettable and regrettably are meant. A simple way of making the distinction is that when you regret something you have done you are regretful: He gave a regretful smile; he smiled regretfully. In contrast, when you are sorry about an occurrence you did not yourself cause, you view the incident as regrettable: this is a regrettable (not regretful) mistake; regrettably (not regretfully, i.e. because of circumstances beyond my control) I shall be unable to attend.
Reference: Collins Thesaurus A-Z, HarperCollins Publishers, page 843
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