Show notes
This week, Scott sits down with Dr. Marc Brackett, founding director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and author of Dealing with Feelings: Use Your Emotions to Create the Life You Want. Together, they explore why so many of us struggle to manage our emotions and what we can do about it. Dr. Brackett explains the importance of co-regulation, self-compassion, and learning to work with our feelings rather than against them.
Highlighted moments
you're not going to choose an adaptive strategy which is more effortful to use unless you think there's a good outcome as a result of it, if it's going to be beneficial to you.
“only a third of people feel like they had someone like that in their lives when they were growing up. Two thirds of people feel like that person was absent from their development.”
“I don't think that telling someone who is a victim of racism to, like, be calm is the right thing. I think that's an injustice right there.”
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