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

Only one in five adults can name more than three emotions they feel regularly. Why do you think that is? Bluntly, I think it's because we don't have an emotion education. We just ignore that aspect of our lives. What does that mean?

What does an an emotion education mean? It means that from preschool to high school and even when we're in the workplace or in college, we are building our emotion skills, you know, vocabulary, for example. Just to give you one example, I'm going to ask you right now, what's the difference between uh anger and disappointment? Ooh.

Anger is fiery and feels like you're on the front foot. Disappointment uh for me is the color of and it's the color of red for me, orangey red. Uh disappointment is sort of a blue gray, like a p dark purple, blue, gray, and it is, it's sort of closed and it feels like I'm on the back foot. It feels like I'm sat in a very low couch.

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