Why Emotions Matter More Than You Think with Professor Marc Brackett #179

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Dr Rangan Chatterjee

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🗓️ 4 May 2021

⏱️ 102 minutes

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CAUTION ADVISED: this podcast contains mild swearing and themes of an adult nature. Today's conversation is all about our emotions and my guest is Professor Marc Brackett, the founding director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. He's published over 100 research articles over the course of his career, and has dedicated his life to studying and teaching emotional literacy. But why are our emotions so important? Marc explains the profound benefits of being better able to express and regulate our emotions on multiple aspects of our lives. Our emotions affect our creativity, learning and problem solving, but also our physical health and our mental health. Yet so many of us struggle to express and regulate our emotions. It's not something that is taught in schools or even modelled by much of society. Marc aims to help change this through his work and research. He has developed something called the ‘RULER’ approach to social and emotional learning, which is used in over 2000 schools across the world and is detailed in his brilliant book, Permission to Feel: Unlock the power of emotions to help yourself and your children. The ‘RULER’ approach sets out the five underlying skills of emotional intelligence and stands for Recognising, Understanding, Labelling, Expressing and Regulating emotions. The RUL, says Marc, is about our experience – whether of our own emotions or someone else’s. The ER is about what we do with the feelings. And I think it’s an invaluable tool for children and adults alike. Marc explains why he wants us all to become what he calls ‘emotion scientists’, rather than being ‘emotion judges’, and he wants us all to be able to better understand our own and each other's feelings. This episode is packed with personal insights, practical examples and brilliant tips to put his advice into practice in your life and perhaps that of your children. I hope you find it as useful and meaningful as I did. Show notes available at https://drchatterjee.com/179 Follow me on instagram.com/drchatterjee/ Follow me on facebook.com/DrChatterjee/ Follow me on twitter.com/drchatterjeeuk DISCLAIMER: The content in the podcast and on this webpage is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have heard on the podcast or on my website.

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0:00.0	So much of our emotion regulation ability stems from the way the adults in our lives spoke to us when we were kids.
0:09.0	Did you have someone in your life give you the permission to feel?
0:13.0	Literally, who just provided the space for you to be your true, full, feeling self.
0:24.6	Hi, my name is Rangan Chatsky.
0:28.4	Welcome to Feel Better Live More.
0:42.3	Today's conversation is all about our emotions and my guest is Professor Mark Brackett, the founding director of the Yale Center of Emotional Intelligence. Now, Mark is a very esteemed guest. Not only
0:49.5	is he a professor at Yale, he's published over 100 research articles over the course of his career
0:56.3	and has dedicated his life to studying and teaching emotional literacy. But why is that so important?
1:04.5	Well, in our conversation, all will be revealed. Mark explains the profound benefits of being better able to express and regulate
1:14.5	your emotions on multiple aspects of our lives. Creativity, learning, problem solving, but also
1:23.5	our physical health and our mental health. The thing is, though, many of us find this
1:30.2	really hard. It's not something that is taught in schools or even modeled by much of society.
1:36.9	And Mark's aim is to help change that through his work and research. Now, Mark has developed
1:43.0	something called the ruler approach to social and emotional
1:47.0	learning. It's used in over 2,000 schools across the world, which is really, really inspiring
1:53.0	because I think it is so, so important. And that ruler approach sets out the five underlying
1:59.6	skills of emotional intelligence and stands for
2:03.6	recognizing, understanding, labeling, expressing, and regulating our emotions.
2:11.6	Now the first three, RUL for recognizing, understanding, and labeling is it's about our experience, whether of our own
2:20.1	emotions or someone else's. And the last two, expressing and regulating emotions, is actually about
2:27.7	what we do with those feelings. I think it is such an invaluable tool for children and adults alike.
2:36.5	In our conversation, Mark explains why he wants us all to become what he calls emotion scientists
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