Emotional Control - The Most Important Part of Your Book

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We're going to hit an hour and a half here pretty soon. And i don't want to let go what i think is the most important part of your book. That is emotional control, or just being able to deal with your negative s. We all have that here. I'm not talking about psychopaths or the, you know, te he social media influences. Just regular people. But talk a little about what we know about controlling your tons. Well, let me start with what you don't do is suppress them. suppression is a very bad and destructive way to deal withyour emotions. There's been a lot of studying the last 20 years about what are the good ways to

xtraordinary advances in psychology and neuroscience have proven that emotions are as critical to our well-being as thinking. In this conversation, Shermer and Mlodinow explore the new science of feelings.

Journeying from the labs of pioneering scientists to real-world scenarios that have flirted with disaster, Mlodinow shows us how our emotions can help, why they sometimes hurt, and what we can learn in both instances.

Shermer and Mlodinow discuss: the difference between emotions and feelings/moods/drives/passions; how the scientific understanding of emotions has changed; thought vs. feeling; system 1 vs. system 2 cognition; mind-body connection: how does our physical state influence what we think & feel?; the neuroscience of emotions: how the brain constructs emotions; Lisa Feldman Barrett challenge to Paul Ekman’s theory of universal emotions; Schachter-Singer theory of emotion; the effects of social context on emotions; and more…