#117: The Function of Emotions with Dr. Susan David

The Mark Groves Podcast

Mark Groves

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.9 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2020

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Dr. Susan David, Ph.D. is one of the world’s leading management thinkers and an award-winning Harvard Medical School psychologist. Dr. Susan David is a sought-after speaker, author and researcher with a deep focus on emotions. In this episode we discuss some of the narratives around emotions that we've gained from society and the ways in which they are making us less healthy and contributing to a culture of toxic positivity. Susan explains how we can show up for ourselves by ending the constant struggle between how we think we should feel, and how we actually feel. ~ Discover: Why being happy all the time shrinks us The sweet marrow of life Emotions are not good or bad, they are there for a reason How we should feel vs. how we DO feel Our emotions are data but shouldn't call the shots What is underneath the emotion? Are you stressed or are you depleted? What small shifts can you make to open your heart You can find Susan's quiz on her website, her TED Talk here and find her bestselling book, Emotional Agility on Amazon. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of the Mark Groves podcast.
0:12.0	Today I have on the show an expert on emotions.
0:17.2	I'm so excited about this because this is her jam.
0:20.2	She's a master, researcher, communicator,
0:23.4	all the things on emotion. If you've been on the podcast before, you know that I talk about,
0:28.9	we should be taught this stuff in school. Like, if you're new, this is it, right? Like,
0:34.0	this is the stuff that matters most. And are emotional beings and we the way that we
0:41.9	interact with our emotions is based on what was modeled for us till we learned something differently
0:48.0	and so you can learn something differently you can learn how to relate to your feelings in a
0:52.8	completely different way.
1:00.3	But it does involve learning new things and in turn sort of unlearning what was previously taught.
1:13.2	And that's done by acknowledging what we were taught, separating what we were taught from what is right, what feels good, what is connective rather than disconnective, what emotions and how we engage in them in order to protect ourselves.
1:15.0	You know, and this involves the excavating of looking at what were some of the explicit
1:21.5	and implicit things I was taught as a kid about feelings.
1:26.3	And we learned them through our culture, through our media, through our
1:29.6	families, through our schools, through our religions. And so start to ask yourself questions like,
1:35.7	oh, did we fight in my family? Did I watch conflict get navigated in a healthy way? Was there
1:42.6	no conflict? Which some people say like, oh yeah, we didn't
1:45.6	fight in my house. It was great. That's not great because it's not a lot. It's not an absence of
1:51.3	conflict that's healthy. It's how conflict is navigated that matters. We, you know, conflict is
1:57.3	essential because we have two different worlds or many more than two in family
2:01.7	systems and communities bumping up against each other and how do we navigate those things
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