Thinking Well And Feeling Strongly

I consider myself duly warned.  Thinking is not enough, I’m told.  You have to feel.  In fact, feeling motivates more action than does thinking.

I agree with the last sentence.  It’s a damned shame, but it’s true.  For me as for most human animals.  I suspect that it is also true that feeling negatively (hating, condemning, being angry, and the like) is easier than feeling positively (approving, enjoying, and feeling happy, for instance).  If a speaker can get me to hate someone or something (pretty easy to do unless I THINK carefully) that speaker can turn me into an “againster”.  I will be against whatever I might otherwise approve of, approve part of.  And, being in a negative emotional state, I will fail to think.  

Oh, darn.  Failing to think means I will probably act unwisely and support (or fail to support) foolishly.