The School of Greatness · 2025-10-29 · 84 min · 15,794 words

90% of People Never Got an Emotional Education | Dr. Marc Brackett

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Here's the deal. 90% of us report never having had any emotion education. And you can't just bury your emotions because they're what make you human. The number one thing that students said to me was that they felt manufactured and they really weren't sure who they were because someone else prescribed burns. Yeah.

Professor of psychology at Yale University and the director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. A guest today is Dr. Mark Brackett. There seems to be this trend that I'm noticing where parents are too much in their feelings with their kids. Tell me more about your feelings.

It's okay. Cry. That's not emotional intelligence. That's emotional indulgence. Why is everybody depressed?

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