How to Detect Emotional Thinking
1. They constantly change the subject or introduce unrelated topics, especially when they disagree with you. This is a deflection tactic used to avoid staying on point.
2. Once triggered, they begin speaking rapidly. The faster they talk, the less they process.
3. They interrupt repeatedly during conversations, especially when a specific word or phrase hits a nerve.
4. They speak in an accusatory tone. In their mind, they hear a neutral or even benign statement, twist it into the most negative interpretation possible, then accuse you based on their own emotional translation.
5. They instinctively protect their provider or collective. Children and women both defend whoever provides for them. When a woman defends the government over her husband, it usually means she plans to replace her husband with the government.
a • • For example, when someone criticizes President Obama, emotional thinkers respond with, “You hate him because he’s black.”
b • • When a man shares what his ex-wife did to him, they say, “You hate all women.” These are clear examples of point 4 and point 5 in action.
6. They frequently begin sentences with “I feel.” Such as, “I feel that you are not telling the truth,” or “I feel that he is a jerk.” Feelings are not facts, but emotional thinkers treat them as such.
7. They manipulate facts or statistics to justify their behavior. They cherry-pick numbers to fit a narrative and ignore anything that contradicts their emotions.
These are the traits of children and women. A man must grow out of emotional thinking and become logical. Boys raised by single mothers often fail to make that transformation. Instead of developing reason, they inherit emotion. They do not become men, they remain boys in adult bodies.
