That some emotions are wrong

I generally agree with this article but think it could go into more depth about the authors assumptions on the underlying model of how emotions work and how they interact with rationality.

My personal model is that emotions are a slow-learning subsystem of the brain that receives telemetry from everywhere else. It forms conclusions about the overall state of our experience using this low-level telemetry and prior learned results from similar states in the past, and bubbles up serialized/tokenized/compressed conclusions (e.g. "we are now sad") to the higher level rational train of thought we experience as our internal monologue.

We then have to re-derive what caused the underlying emotion based on our environment and internal state at a rational level to figure out why "we are sad", and sometimes we get that wrong!

In this sense I think the article got the process right, you can slowly retrain your underlying emotional responses by giving them more or less attention/validation, but you cant expect it to ever work instantly! It takes time.

So the last sentence contradicts his whole ramble before, nice.

Author should check out Cognitive Behavioral Therapy