Your emotions lie to you

James Jordan
5 min readJun 15, 2018
Emotions are complicated, but I don’t let them rule everything. Pixabay

Emotions have a lot of roots and reasons for being. They are not always telling you the truth.

One of my favorite editors had a lot of sayings. One of them was, “people don’t want to hear about the birth pains, they just want to see the baby.” He said that in reference to putting out a newspaper. People just wanted to read it (and point out mistakes), and…

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James Jordan

Teller of tales, many of which are actually true. Award-winning journalist, and the William Allen White Award for reporting.