Imagine travelling back in time 500 years, and showing someone a mobile phone. Why? Because the words we know literally shape our experience of the world. How many of them could you name? The more rich and comprehensive our emotional vocabulary, the better we can connect with, understand, and communicate our emotional experience. Being able to identify emotions is a key building block of emotional intelligence.Īccording to, there are around 34,000 human emotions (I’ve collected about a thousand of them in this post). An emotion wheel is a great visual aid to help us identify how we’re feeling, and also to expand our emotional vocabulary.
