These emotions, Brown notes, are related to learning and knowledge-building. In chapter four, “Places We Go When It’s Beyond Us,” the author defines awe, wonder, confusion, curiosity, interest, and surprise. Brown comments how, although all of these emotions would be considered negative states, they all are necessary for survival. In this chapter, author describes boredom, disappointment, expectations, regret, discouragement, resignation, and frustration.

“Places We Go When Things Don’t Go as Planned,” is the title of chapter three. These emotions all relate to our relationships with those around us, and several of them are connected to a social group’s collective emotion. In the second chapter “Places We Go When We Compare,” the author provides instruction on comparison, admiration, reverence, envy, jealousy, resentment, schadenfreude, and freudenfreude.

In this chapter Brown describes her personal experiences with these emotions, starting with a narration of her experience of being a waitress in a busy restaurant, where she discovered coping skills that she still uses to this day. In the first chapter, “Places We Go When Things Are Uncertain or Too Much,” Brene Brown defines the emotions of stress, overwhelm, anxiety, worry, avoidance, excitement, dread, fear, and vulnerability.

As the definitions of each emotion are somewhat lengthy and complicated, the summary below will only provide lists of the emotions covered in each chapter. Each chapter covers between three and eight emotions, incorporating information and conclusions from a variety of researchers as well as anecdotes from the life of Brene Brown. A dictionary of the language of human emotion and experience, Atlas of the Heart is broken into 13 chapters, all of which have the phrase “Places We Go” in the title.

The atlas of the heart