4026: How to Keep Emotions From Running Your Life by David Cain of Raptitude on Managing Emotions

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🗓️ 24 May 2026

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 4026: David Cain explores how our attempts to avoid uncomfortable emotions like embarrassment, uncertainty, and boredom often give those feelings more power over our lives. By learning to experience difficult emotions directly, rather than resisting or overanalyzing them, we become more resilient, emotionally free, and less controlled by fear-driven habits. Read along with the original article(s) here: https://www.raptitude.com/2017/02/how-to-keep-emotions-from-running-your-life/ Quotes to ponder: “You experiment, a bit at a time, with letting yourself feel the things you’re afraid to feel, and watch them lose their power over you.” “Avoidance has a way of empowering the thing you’re avoiding.” “When you stop trying to ban certain feelings from your experience, they tend to pass through relatively easily, in a matter of minutes or even seconds, and nothing is harmed.” Episode references: Meditation: https://www.mindful.org/how-to-meditate/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:51.9	by David Kane of Raptitude.com.
0:54.7	And I'm your narrator, Justin Mollick, the guy that reads blogs or articles to you every single day of the year,
0:59.9	including weekends and holidays.
1:01.8	I appreciate you listening every single day.
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1:05.4	We're going to get right to our next post as we optimize your life.
1:12.9	How to Keep Emotions from Running Your Life by David Cain of Raptitude.com
1:18.1	The worst period of my life ended shortly after I made a key discovery.
1:23.9	Most of the difficult experiences in my life arose directly from my desperate need to avoid difficult
1:30.1	experiences. At the time, I was flunking in school. I was a bad student because I avoided asking for help or revisiting
1:37.4	concepts I hadn't grasped the first time. I avoided those things precisely because they made me feel like a bad student.
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