I call it emotional leadership because sensitive people often, you know, feel things before other people do, like maybe they'll cry first or they'll get afraid first or they'll get angry first.

And generally, that's what everybody ought to be feeling, but they haven't figured it out yet.

Not always, but that's often true.

So what if being highly sensitive was actually a superpower and not something to be fixed.

Well if you've ever heard the term highly sensitive person or maybe been called highly

sensitive and maybe even recoiled a bit when that happened.

Our conversation with today's guest, Dr. Lane Aaron, it just might change your mind and even

your world.

An acclaimed sensitive person to describe someone who is easily overwhelmed by strong

sensory input, subtleties and environment and other people's moods, someone who

processes things in different ways and at different speeds and deeply feels pressure and overstimulation.

And since its publication in 1995, her preeminent book on the subject, The Highly Sensitive

Person, has gone on to become an international bestseller translated into 30

languages she's also the author of the highly sensitive parent and many others and

she has established the foundation for the study of a highly sensitive persons and published many

scientific articles on sensitivity in leading journals in her field and it turns

out today's conversation was also personal because in many ways I began to realize that I actually

identify as a highly sensitive person but I also discovered so much more about the way

that I moved through the world how this trait relates to things like introversion and extra version, very surprising, and how you can be both highly sensitive, while also being high sensation, which I had never heard of before, and we also

discover how Elaine's lens on high sensitivity has really evolved in major and

meaningful ways since her groundbreaking early research on the topic.

So excited to share this best of conversation with you.

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