Here's the deal.

90% of us report never having had any emotion education.

And you can't just bury your emotions because they're what make you human.

The number one thing that students said to me was that they felt manufactured.

And they really weren't sure who they were because someone else prescribed.

Burns.

Yeah.

Professor of Psychology at Yale University and the director of the Yale Center for Emotional

Intelligence.

A guest today is Dr. Mark Bracken.

There seems to be this trend that I'm noticing where parents are too much in their feelings

with their kids.

Tell me more about your feelings.

It's okay.

Cry.

That's not emotional intelligence. That's emotional indulgence.

Why is everybody depressed? Everybody's not depressed. They're just using the word depressed. We can't allow that. We've got to get people to understand. You're disappointed. You're discouraged. What we want to do is help people understand that granularity, it's called. I'm pretty convinced at this point in my career

that most of us have been gaslighted in childhood. How does someone who's experienced that as a child

break the cycle? Yeah, well, firstly. Welcome back, everyone in the School of Greatness,

excited about our guests. We the inspiring mark bracket in the house

and the first question i want to ask you mark is about emotional regulation because many

neuroscientists that i've brought on this show before brain surgeons that i brought on elite athletes

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