Dr. Marc Brackett, PhD, is founding director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and a professor in the Child Study Center at Yale University. We discuss the science of emotion regulation and practical tools to increase your emotional intelligence. Dr. Brackett clarifies exactly how to do that both in the context of relationships, but also things that you can do on your own to become more emotionally intelligent to later serve you in the context of relationships, work, school, etc. We also discuss how your childhood experiences influence your relationship with emotions, with particular emphasis on how boys and men are socialized around emotional processing and expression.

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Timestamps

(00:00:00) Marc Brackett

(00:02:55) Emotion Regulation

(00:05:53) Emotion Mindset, Anxiety; Good or Bad Emotions?

(00:11:25) Sponsors: Joovv & Lingo

(00:13:54) Permission for Happiness; Gender, Emotion Suppression

(00:22:13) Young Men, Vulnerability, Incapable; Gay Men

(00:31:00) Boys & Men, Crying; Emotion Socialization

(00:37:34) Sponsor: AG1

(00:38:58) Physical Interaction; Rough/Tumble Play, Teaching Emotion Regulation

(00:46:47) Emotion Calibration, Tools: Leaders & Being a Role Model; Meta-Moment

(00:56:15) Meditation & Stress Tolerance, Tool: Label Emotions; Childhood

(01:03:12) Sponsor: LMNT

(01:04:32) Understand Your Assumptions, Tool: Intentional Co-Regulation

(01:12:09) Vocabulary & Rethinking Emotion, Tool: Reframing

(01:15:49) Emotional Intelligence Training, Self-Evaluation

(01:22:15) Living with Discomfort & Emotional Intelligence

(01:27:01) Marc's Work & Criticism; Emotion "Leakage" & Switching Mindset

(01:34:19) Sponsor: Rorra

(01:35:32) Excitement, Positive Emotion; Modern Concerns, AI & Disconnection

(01:45:11) Major Societal Challenges & Everyday Progress

(01:54:38) Physical/Emotional Identity & Envision Best Self, Tool: Meta-Moment

(02:05:33) Emotional Intelligence

(02:12:46) Curiosity & Compassion; Reflection, Identity

(02:19:32) Point of Connection Game

(02:25:02) Zero-Cost Support, YouTube, Spotify & Apple Follow, Reviews & Feedback, Sponsors, Protocols Book, Social Media, Neural Network Newsletter

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