Marc Brackett - Yale Emotional Intelligence Expert | How to Effortlessly Master Emotions

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🗓️ 13 February 2026

⏱️ 93 minutes

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➡️ Join 321,000 people who read my free weekly newsletter: https://newsletter.scottdclary.com ➡️ Like The Podcast? Leave A Rating: https://ratethispodcast.com/successstory Marc Brackett is a research psychologist and the founding director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, where he focuses on the science of emotions and their impact on learning, decision-making, relationships, and mental health. He is a Professor in the Child Study Center at Yale University and has dedicated his career to developing evidence-based approaches for teaching emotional intelligence in schools and organizations. Brackett is the creator of RULER, a systemic approach to social and emotional learning that has been adopted by thousands of schools worldwide, and is the author of the book "Permission to Feel: Unlocking the Power of Emotions to Help Our Kids, Ourselves, and Our Society Thrive." His work emphasizes the importance of recognizing, understanding, labeling, expressing, and regulating emotions as essential skills for well-being and success. ➡️ Show Links https://www.instagram.com/marc.brackett/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRA3Ffn23Cl8W4xyev6EGIw https://www.linkedin.com/in/drmarcbrackett/ ➡️ Podcast Sponsors Hubspot - https://hubspot.com/ Huel - https://huel.com/scott (Code: scott) The Demand Decoded Podcast - https://www.blendb2b.com/demand-decoded NetSuite - https://netsuite.com/scottclary/ Indeed - https://indeed.com/clary Framer - https://framer.com/design (Code: SuccessStory) LinkedIn - https://linkedin.com/success Wix - https://wix.com/ NorthWest Registered Agent - https://www.northwestregisteredagent.com/paidsuccess BELAY - https://belaysolutions.com (Text ‘scott’ at 55123) Gusto - https://gusto.com/successstory Lennar - https://www.lennar.com/ ➡️ Talking Points 00:00 – Intro 01:29 – What Emotional Intelligence Really Means 11:31 – Where Emotional Learning Begins 16:06 – Training Better Emotional Responses 19:51 – Emotions vs Being Emotional 23:37 – Why We Mislabel Our Emotions 33:51 – The Ideal Emotional Education System 37:14 – Sponsor Break 39:56 – How Adults Can Build Emotional Intelligence 51:10 – The Most Powerful Emotional Skill 53:23 – Why Emotions Confuse Us 58:12 – The Emotional Regulation Budget 1:03:46 – Sponsor Break 1:05:36 – Life With an Empty Emotional Tank 1:13:39 – Why We Suppress How We Feel 1:20:51 – Why Emotional Education Matters Now 1:28:26 – Marc’s Most Surprising Discovery 1:30:56 – One Lesson for His Younger Self

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0:00.0	I was sexually abused as a kid for five years in my childhood. I don't define myself as a sexually abused person.
0:06.0	I define myself as a human being who experienced childhood sexual abuse, but I'm sublimating that negative experience into trying to make the world a better place.
0:14.0	What if the key to peak performance is an intelligence, but emotional intelligence?
0:18.0	Mark Brackett is a psychologist, best-selling author, and the founding
0:21.6	director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. I have a framework, which I call
0:25.9	ruler, recognizing emotions in one self and other, understanding the causes and the consequences
0:30.6	of emotion. And so this regulation piece, probably the most important skill anybody can learn.
0:34.8	And my research, I surveyed thousands of people across the world.
0:37.9	Only 10% of the sample said they learn anything about that. Only 5% said they learned something about it
0:42.8	in school. So we have masses of people who are experiencing a lot of strong emotions. They don't
0:47.9	know what to do with them. For decades, he's been at the forefront of research helping leaders,
0:51.9	educators, and organizations understand the power of emotions in driving performance, relationships, and well-being.
0:58.3	Today, he's here to show us why emotions aren't obstacles to success.
1:01.8	They're the strategy.
1:02.8	One of the things I talk about is how we're so desperate for the quick fix.
1:06.0	But you don't deal with your emotions using these quick fixes.
1:08.8	It's a life strategy.
1:09.9	You can make good decision feeling any emotion as long as you're aware that you're feeling
1:15.6	the emotion and regulating it effectively when you're making the decision.
1:31.4	So, Mark, you're the expert in emotional intelligence.
1:35.5	So before we sort of go into all of that, what does emotional intelligence actually mean?
1:37.4	Can I put it back on you?
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