What podcasts say about Marc Brackett
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What Marc Brackett has said on podcasts
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Emotion regulation changes one’s relationship with feelings rather than eliminating them.
“A lot of people think emotion regulation is getting rid of a feeling. It's not what it is. It's just having another relationship to it.”
Open the episode · How to Better Regulate Your Emotions | Dr. Marc BrackettListen at 0:00
Emotion regulation consists of goals and strategies.
“emotion regulation is a set of goals and strategies”
Open the episode · How to Better Regulate Your Emotions | Dr. Marc BrackettListen at 3:51
Anxiety can be beneficial rather than inherently bad.
“anxiety is a good thing”
Open the episode · How to Better Regulate Your Emotions | Dr. Marc BrackettListen at 9:13
Viewing anxiety as inherently bad can contribute to emotional dysregulation.
“if you automatically assume it's bad, then it's going to put you on the path to dysregulation.”
Open the episode · How to Better Regulate Your Emotions | Dr. Marc BrackettListen at 9:26
People’s tendencies to experience certain emotions partly reflect genetic and biological factors.
“some of it is genetic and biological. You know, our proclivity to experience certain emotions.”
Open the episode · How to Better Regulate Your Emotions | Dr. Marc BrackettListen at 17:18
Emotion-regulation skills are learned rather than innate.
“The regulation piece is all learned.”
Open the episode · How to Better Regulate Your Emotions | Dr. Marc BrackettListen at 17:24
Constantly striving for happiness is associated with greater misery.
“people who strive to be happy all the time actually are more miserable because it's hard to live up to that all the time.”
Open the episode · How to Better Regulate Your Emotions | Dr. Marc BrackettListen at 20:38
Striving for contentment is associated with greater well-being.
“people who strive for more contentment in their life actually seem to have greater well being.”
Open the episode · How to Better Regulate Your Emotions | Dr. Marc BrackettListen at 20:46
Boys are generally more inhibited than girls when expressing sadness, disappointment, and shame.
“boys generally feel more inhibited just saying how they feel, especially when it comes to kind of the sad, disappointment, ashamed emotions.”
Open the episode · How to Better Regulate Your Emotions | Dr. Marc BrackettListen at 25:11
Children’s emotional-expression patterns are shaped by socialization.
“Kids are dying to express their emotions. Boys and girls, we just socialized it.”
Open the episode · How to Better Regulate Your Emotions | Dr. Marc BrackettListen at 35:31
Instruction can modify socially learned emotional patterns.
“We're not born that way. We are socialized into, you know, having these complicated relationships with certain emotions. But it's not something that can't be modified with good instruction.”
Open the episode · How to Better Regulate Your Emotions | Dr. Marc BrackettListen at 35:52
Rough-and-tumble play becomes problematic when it involves power over others without concern for their feelings.
“when it becomes a power over, that's when it becomes a problem. When you have no concern for the emotional life of the other.”
Open the episode · How to Better Regulate Your Emotions | Dr. Marc BrackettListen at 41:12
Within highly selective universities, SAT scores have no predictive validity.
“Your SAT scores have no predictive validity. None.”
Open the episode · How to Better Regulate Your Emotions | Dr. Marc BrackettListen at 45:00
Schools with emotionally skilled leaders had 40% lower frustration levels.
“Frustration levels were 40% lower in schools where there were leaders with these skills.”
Open the episode · How to Better Regulate Your Emotions | Dr. Marc BrackettListen at 46:34
Vulnerability is unhelpful when sharing fears is not accompanied by a coping strategy.
“vulnerability, that's like sharing and spewing out all the fears that you have is not helpful when it's not accompanied by the strategy.”
Open the episode · How to Better Regulate Your Emotions | Dr. Marc BrackettListen at 51:07
Effective emotion regulation requires replacing automatic reactions with deliberate responses.
“we have to move from automatic, habitual, unhelpful reactions to deliberate, conscious, helpful responses.”
Open the episode · How to Better Regulate Your Emotions | Dr. Marc BrackettListen at 55:28
Meditation is necessary but insufficient for effective emotion regulation.
“It's a necessary but insufficient strategy.”
Open the episode · How to Better Regulate Your Emotions | Dr. Marc BrackettListen at 56:49
Breathing and mindfulness alone are insufficient for managing difficult conversations.
“breathing and mindfulness and it's great, but it's not enough at the end.”
Open the episode · How to Better Regulate Your Emotions | Dr. Marc BrackettListen at 56:54
Effective co-regulation should build independent emotional-regulation capacity rather than dependence.
“the whole goal of it is, is to support the other person in being capable of regulating on their own, eventually. Not codependent, not coddling, but actually instilling the belief in the other person that they can do it.”
Open the episode · How to Better Regulate Your Emotions | Dr. Marc BrackettListen at 1:10:29
No single emotion-regulation strategy is universally correct, and excessive exercise can become harmful avoidance.
“there is no correct strategy. I worked as a fitness instructor for 10 years of my life while I taught martial arts. I saw so many people use exercise as a way to escape their reality. They just went on the treadmill for 10 hours a day with an eating disorder, who were just thinking, this is my healthy strategy, and they were ruining their lives.”
Open the episode · How to Better Regulate Your Emotions | Dr. Marc BrackettListen at 1:21:28
Avoiding difficult feelings instead of learning to manage them may undermine resilience.
“People have to learn how to live with difficult feelings. And if we're going to give excuses to people to, like, you know, they can just, like, I'm overwhelmed by what's happened and not be able to process it and manage it and move forward in their life. We're going to create a generation of very weak people.”
Open the episode · How to Better Regulate Your Emotions | Dr. Marc BrackettListen at 1:25:24
Unregulated excitement can be unhelpful.
“Excitement without regulation is not helpful.”
Open the episode · How to Better Regulate Your Emotions | Dr. Marc BrackettListen at 1:37:29
About 20% of adolescents report using AI as a therapist or companion.
“about 20% of adolescents now report using technology, AI as a therapist, as a companion.”
Open the episode · How to Better Regulate Your Emotions | Dr. Marc BrackettListen at 1:42:15
People should not use chatbots as substitutes for relationships.
“Do I want people to be in relationship with a chatbot? Absolutely not.”
Open the episode · How to Better Regulate Your Emotions | Dr. Marc BrackettListen at 1:42:32
Technology cannot replace human emotional support during severe distress.
“There's no way the technology can replace that.”
Open the episode · How to Better Regulate Your Emotions | Dr. Marc BrackettListen at 1:43:00
A dysregulated society is unlikely to solve its major problems.
“I don't think a dysregulated society is going to solve its problems.”
Open the episode · How to Better Regulate Your Emotions | Dr. Marc BrackettListen at 1:51:35
The meta moment redirects people from emotional triggers toward their values.
“when you build the space to think about your best self, what it does is it pulls you away from the trigger and it brings you back to your values.”
Open the episode · How to Better Regulate Your Emotions | Dr. Marc BrackettListen at 2:01:22
Emotional-intelligence skills are measurable and predict important life outcomes.
“I feel very confident in that what I teach is easily defined, it's measurable. And I can show you my own and thousands of other studies where these skills predict, predict the things that we care about in life.”
Open the episode · How to Better Regulate Your Emotions | Dr. Marc BrackettListen at 2:09:49
Hearing people’s stories can substantially change judgments about them.
“people had completely different judgments of people after hearing them and listening to their stories.”
Open the episode · How to Better Regulate Your Emotions | Dr. Marc BrackettListen at 2:14:21
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