How to feel more secure

Hogging seats on a crowded train, not saying excuse me, watching videos on your phone with no headphones in. Sometimes it feels like we don't know how to act anymore. What we have been seeing, increasingly, is people breaking rules. Why should I play by the rules if nobody else is going to do that for me? This week on Explain It to Me, how to mind your manners.

New episodes Sundays wherever you get your podcasts. What does it mean to become more emotionally secure, safe, stable, calm, less reactive, more trusting? When we talk about insecurity, we usually talk about it in a pretty narrow way. Dating, attachment styles, anxious people, avoidant people, all the familiar therapy speak. But insecurity is obviously bigger than that.

It colors how you move through the world, how you deal with uncertainty, how you interpret other people, how you understand yourself. Whatever security means, We all clearly want it. So if that's true, can people become more secure? I'm Sean Ayling, and this is the gray area.

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