How to Unlock the Power of Emotional Intelligence | Dr. Marc Brackett on the Permission to Feel
Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais
Dr. Michael Gervais
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🗓️ 26 October 2022
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
This week’s conversation is with Dr. Marc Brackett, the founding director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and a professor in the Child Study Center at Yale University.
Marc’s research focuses on the role of emotional intelligence in learning, decision making, creativity, relationships, health, and performance.
Over his extensive career, Marc has developed a systemic, evidence-based approach to social & emotional learning which has been adopted by over 4,000 schools across the United States and in 27 other countries.
Outside of the school setting, Marc also regularly consults with world-leading corporations on integrating emotional intelligence principles into leadership teams and employee training programs to help boost retention, innovation, and ROI.
While emotions are a central part of well-being and high performance, it’s clear that many of us struggle with this part of the human experience – and that’s exactly why I wanted to sit down with Marc for this conversation.
We discuss Marc’s approach to unlocking the power of emotional intelligence - in all environments - in order to help our kids, ourselves, and our communities thrive.
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| 0:00.0 | The world's chaos is worsening, which depresses me. |
| 0:04.5 | I've just come to the conclusion that whether it be in a school or a family or in a workplace, |
| 0:12.1 | it's really our moral obligation to take how people feel seriously. |
| 0:16.3 | Okay, welcome back. Or welcome to the Finding Mastery podcast. I am your host, Dr. Michael |
| 0:30.6 | Jervé, by trade and training a high performance psychologist. And I am excited to take a deep dive |
| 0:36.4 | with Dr. Mark Brackett on the applied science of emotions. Mark is the founding director of the |
| 0:43.0 | Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and a professor in the Child Study Center at Yale |
| 0:48.0 | University. His research focuses on the role of emotional intelligence in learning, |
| 0:53.3 | decision-making, creativity, relationships, health, and performance. Mark developed a systemic |
| 1:00.7 | evidence-based approach to social and emotional learning, which has been adopted by over 4,000 |
| 1:06.4 | schools across the United States and in 27 other countries. That is epic. And outside of the |
| 1:12.8 | school setting, Mark regularly consults with world leading corporations on integrating emotional |
| 1:17.8 | intelligence principles into leadership teams and employee training programs to help boost retention, |
| 1:24.0 | innovation, and of course ROI. Mark, I am super excited to sit with you. |
| 1:31.5 | Thank you. So like as a lead-off batter, how are you? And I like, I really mean that. How are you? |
| 1:38.8 | Well, I have to, you know, I have to correct you on that one. It's how are you feeling? |
| 1:43.6 | You got to get into me. I'm very good. Yeah, very, well, let's be more specific, right? Like, |
| 1:49.4 | how are you feeling right now? Yeah, well, I think about it though, before we jump in. Like, |
| 1:54.0 | how are you fine? Right? It's what we typically say, right? How am I feeling to be honest with you, |
| 2:02.7 | rushed, overwhelmed, excited, lots of different feelings? How about you? |
| 2:09.6 | Yeah, for me, I want to appreciate the kind of preciseness of your question. |
| 2:14.8 | For me, I have at the beginning of this conversation, I'm most, there's an eagerness. |
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