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#52 Dr. Laura Markham: Peaceful Parenting with

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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Emotions Are Use, Not a Necessity

A lot of adults are dismissive about other people's opinions. I wonder how much of that carries over from adult interactions to adult kid interactions. We were almost practising on a daily basis, the opposite of what you're talking about. You know, humans enr humans are scared of emotion, mostly. And don't have to be. Most of us were not raised to be, to be able to befriend our emotions. At best, we see them as a necessary inconvenience. But there's nothing wrong with emotion. What's wrong is when we leap to take action without adding in the prefrental cortex,. executive function That says, ye, we're angry, but right now, sm

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