The Life-Changing Skill of Emotional Regulation - Dr Marc Brackett - #1014

Dr. Marc Brackett is a professor at Yale University, the founding director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, and author.

Why is it so hard to actually feel our emotions? In a world that tells us to “be more vulnerable,” many of us don’t even know what that really means. Are we being unregulated when we express emotion, or are we finally being human? How can we reconnect with what we feel so we can actually understand ourselves better?

Expect to learn why only 1 in 5 adults can name more than three emotions they feel regularly, what emotional intelligence actually is, why we were taught such few emotional skills, how we can tell the difference between real regulation and repressed emotion, if it is possible to be too self-aware, how you can learn to reframe uncomfortable emotions—like anxiety or envy—into signals instead of shame and much more…

Timestamps:

(0:00) How Can We Recognise What We’re Feeling?

(5:02) What Does it Mean to Regulate Emotion?

(10:21) Why Were We Never Taught How to Regulate Our Emotions?

(18:56) Why Does Emotional Suppression Come So Naturally?

(24:40) Are People Truly Anxious?

(34:14) How to Build Emotional Regulation

(47:54) The Real Advantage of Becoming Emotionally Intelligent

(01:01:32) The Difference Between Feeling Emotions and Processing Them

(01:05:13) Why Being ‘Too Sensitive’ Is a Myth

(01:19:15) Is It Possible to Be Too Self-Aware?

(01:24:02) The First Step Toward Mastering Emotional Regulation

(01:26:58) Where to Find Marc

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