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#434: Jim Dethmer — How to Shift from Victim Consciousness, Reduce Drama, Practice Candor, Be Fully Alive, and More

The Tim Ferriss Show

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How to Be Emotionally Intelligent

Before you can get emotionally intelligent, you have to be emotionally literate. Emotional literacy means that at any moment, you can pause and ask yourself, what feeling is here now? I learned thisi when i first got married to my first wife. We were maybe a year in our relationship and started to have conflict. So we went to marriage therapy. The therap was saying, those aren't feelings, those are thoughts. Any time you say the word i feel followed by the word that it's not going to be a feeling, it's going to be. This is how unemotionally literate i was, by the way. You know, i was a meaningful athlete....

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