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Merve Emre on Emotional Intelligence as Corporate Control

WorkLife with Adam Grant

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How to Manage and Express Emotions to Stay Professional?

I don't think i would want to see or employ a therapist who was completely emotionally unreadable. I'm advocating for it to be ok for people not to make their emotional lives available to others in in work situations. And does that go both ways? You should have the freedom to withhold emotions, you should also have thefreedom to express them? Yes, absolutely. It's kind of nice to be able to read what other people are feeling and to know what you're feeling. But those scales aren't that useful if you can't,. if you don't have any authority over your own emotional experience. If you can't figure out how to influence other people's emotions.

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