Welcome to Spirit Jim. The average person thinks there are somewhere between eight and 28 emotions

available to the human experience, which might explain a lot about first dates, family reunions,

and comment sections on the internet. The actual number closer to 300. Today's guest discovered this the hard way.

D. Earl Johnson was a banking executive, a man professionally dedicated to the least emotional

subject on earth.

When his teenage daughter asked him what he knew about depression, he had absolutely

nothing useful to say, and she was not impressed.

What followed was nine years of research, thousands of post-it notes on every wall of his office,

and ultimately the most comprehensive reference on human emotional states ever assembled for a general

audience.

He created a tool that bridges the gap between what we think we feel and what we

actually feel.

We are not thinking machines that feel, we are feeling machines that think.

But before we get started, we'd like to say thank you for listening, as this podcast

would not be possible

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means we can keep bringing new episodes to you. In this episode, Paul and his guest, D. Earl

Johnson, get into what emotions really are, while you're almost certainly misidentifying them,

and why learning to name what you feel might be the most powerful thing

you ever do.

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