Interesting
You titled your post with 'management seminar'. Indeed....you were definitely try to manage a dichotomy of emotions also.
Yes...I feel those tugs of 'good angel, bad angel' all the time. For me it is a perceptible effort [on my part] to understand what I am feeling...and deciding how to proceed. Trying to logically assess the situation... by mentally catagorizing the desired outcome, and prioritizing importance of events. [ In other words...come off my high horse]
Thus...I do alot of *sighing*...
"C'mon Jody....CHILL"