Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience

by Brené Brown

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Brown maps 87 distinct human emotions and experiences, arguing that precise emotional vocabulary is not academic nicety but the infrastructure of connection, we cannot share what we cannot name. Drawing on two decades of her own qualitative research plus the broader emotion-science literature, she offers a taxonomy designed to replace vague feeling-words with actionable distinctions.

Published:: 2021
Pages:: 336

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In this collection, Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience references 5 other books.

It draws on Emotional Intelligence, The Body Keeps the Score and Mindset.

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Explicitly builds on Goleman's Emotional Intelligence, arguing that Goleman's EI framework requires a richer emotional vocabulary than most people possess

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Emotional Intelligence

by Daniel Goleman

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Cites van der Kolk's The Body Keeps the Score on interoception, arguing emotional granularity begins with body awareness not abstract labeling

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The Body Keeps the Score

by Bessel van der Kolk

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Draws on Dweck's Mindset in discussing emotions around failure, effort, and identity, mapping the feelings that gate growth-mindset adoption

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Mindset

by Carol Dweck

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Engages Duckworth's Grit research on hope, framing hope as a cognitive-emotional process of agency, pathways, and goals rather than a mood

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Grit

by Angela Duckworth

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References Csikszentmihalyi's Flow in the chapter on wholeheartedness, contrasting flow's absorbed engagement with the disconnection of numbing

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Flow

by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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