#770 - David Brooks - Why Is Everyone So Emotionally Detached?

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2024

⏱️ 66 minutes

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David Brooks is a columnist for The New York Times and an author. We’re often told to control our emotions, but is that actually what we want? Or do we want to be confident enough to feel them fully? Instead of becoming too detached, how can we reconnect with our feelings and actually embrace our experience and connections? Expect to learn why men have been conditioned to be so emotionally cut-off, why being stoic or aloof is perceived to be attractive, why so many people are repressed, how to accurately see people and make them feel comfortable, how to open up without triggering your fear, how to improve the energy you enter a room with and much more… Sponsors: See discounts for all the products I use and recommend: https://chriswillx.com/deals Get 10% discount on all Gymshark’s products at https://bit.ly/sharkwisdom (use code MW10) Get a 20% discount on Nomatic’s amazing luggage at https://nomatic.com/modernwisdom (use code MW20) Get an exclusive discount from Surfshark VPN at https://surfshark.deals/MODERNWISDOM (use code MODERNWISDOM) Extra Stuff: Get my free reading list of 100 books to read before you die: https://chriswillx.com/books Try my productivity energy drink Neutonic: https://neutonic.com/modernwisdom Episodes You Might Enjoy: #577 - David Goggins - This Is How To Master Your Life: http://tinyurl.com/43hv6y59 #712 - Dr Jordan Peterson - How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs: http://tinyurl.com/2rtz7avf #700 - Dr Andrew Huberman - The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain: http://tinyurl.com/3ccn5vkp - Get In Touch: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/modernwisdompodcast Email: https://chriswillx.com/contact - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everybody, welcome back to the show.
0:02.8	My guest today is David Brooks,
0:04.6	he's a columnist for the New York Times and an author.
0:08.0	We're often told to control our emotions,
0:10.6	but is that actually what we want, or do we want to be confident enough to feel
0:15.0	them fully? Instead of becoming too detached, how can we reconnect with our feelings and
0:19.2	actually embrace our experience and connections? Expect to learn why men have been conditioned to be so emotionally cut off,
0:26.0	why being stoic or aloof is perceived to be attractive,
0:30.0	why so many people are repressed,
0:32.0	how to accurately see others and make them feel comfortable,
0:35.1	how to open up without triggering your fear, how to improve the energy you enter a room with,
0:40.0	and much more.
0:42.3	This book is like it's perfectly written for me at the stage of life that I'm in right now
0:49.0	where I'm trying to integrate emotions or I'm trying to actually feel feelings or I'm trying to
0:53.0	embrace bits of me that I was worried about before that I was fearful of before that I was
0:57.9	ashamed about before and David's Arc and his insights here are really cool.
1:02.7	If you're someone that's trying to become more emotionally integrated,
1:05.7	to understand yourself better, to be able to relate to other people,
1:08.8	this is phenomenal, and I really hope that you enjoy it.
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